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Touche on Nov 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An analysis of the C#/.NET platform

> I lost you on your "Does not ship with the OS" point. What are you referring to?

The SDK for developing cmdlets. This would be equivalent if on unix you needed an extra download to write to stdout/stderr.

> So when you say "interoperate" that is what I'm thinking of so I think they interoperate well. Are you referring to something else or are you experiencing a problem?

Cmdlets can only be developed by languages created by Microsoft. You cannot write a cmdlet in Python, Perl, or even C.

jsnover on Nov 4, 2013 [–]

Thanks, that was helpful. I agree that we should do better on both points.

Jeffrey Snover[MSFT] Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server and System Center

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