[tacticalogic]

I script in PowerShell daily and frankly I'm sick of bizarre irregular syntax and constantly having to coerce strange objects with strange side effects and behaviors into doing my bidding.

If you hate it so much, why are you using it daily? I don't think there's anything you can do in a half-dozen line of PS code that couldn't be done just as well with a few hundred lines of VB.

[dayglored]

> I don't think there's anything you can do in a half-dozen line of PS code that couldn't be done just as well with a few hundred lines of VB.

VB LOL ;-)

[no-s]

If you hate it so much, why are you using it daily?

heheh...because most of the time getting Windows stuff done requires using what Microsoft gave you to do it with, however inferior the solution is. Just an example, my Tier-1 staff got all excited about Circonus for some reason, they're into it like toddlers into cotton candy. Under the integration sugar is Node.js calling windows command line stuff. Who writes the Windows command line stuff? Yours truly - in powershell. This is actually an improvement over the previous Nagios integration - that was written by some name-withheld-to-protect-the-guilty ex-Hotmail DBA who cloned his exemplar VBscript a few thousand times and said "see how easy that was?"