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by WalterGR
3173 days ago
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I was under the impression that, at least before powershell, the ability to compose programs and form scripts was super limiting Do you mean using batch files in cmd.exe? Sure. But that's not really what cmd.exe "was for." It's what WSH - Windows Scripting Host[0] - was for. A lot of people (perhaps those who have little Windows experience) don't realize this and think that Windows was entirely un-administratable without using the GUI. While that may indeed have been the case (and may still be) for certain tasks, you could get far with WSH. And using real (well, non-shell script) programming languages: WSH was a host on which programming languages could be added. Such as perl, for example. Or Python. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host |
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