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bloblaw on Jan 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux and Powershell

Helge Klein, a long time Windows dev, summed up my complaints about using PowerShell as anything other than a nice shell that sorta feels like *nix:

https://helgeklein.com/blog/2014/11/hate-powershell/

I still use CMD.exe, so please get off my lawn ;-)

When I need the power of Powershell, I use C# (or even Python + Py2Exe if I'm deploying).

mjevans on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

All of those things are bad, but the worst is the variable scoping.

Did PowerShell devs learn nothing from what was horrid about PHP?

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