[daenz]

>See "The Man Behind Windows PowerShell"

Everything I'm finding about Jeffrey Snover indicates that he did, in fact, by himself, invent PowerShell. The idea and original implementation was developed by him, and then he picked a small team (Bruce Payette and James Truher) to bring it to maturity. So I don't see how that's a fair comparison.

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There were about 30 people in dev/test/pm working on PowerShell version 1. What were their names again?

[throwawaysea]

Prior to it being a full-fledged team, it was indeed a one-man project code-named "Monad". You can find the original vision document, written by one person (Jeffrey Snover), at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/monad-manifesto-th...

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At least a year before that we all got together in that conference room off the building 40 cafeteria and watched the vision demo of making every management action in MMC translate to script. I don't recall Snover being in the picture at that point. Could be wrong. I got the impression he was brought in to solve a problem that was already distinctly on the radar.