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by chrisfinazzo 2953 days ago
There is an episode of the "To Be Continuous" podcast with Jeff Snover (PS's inventor) that gets into this a bit more. Because of the difference in philosophy, a straight port to Windows didn't work well.

Basically, text files (UNIX) v structured data from API's (Windows), thus PowerShell was born.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/e...