[ernst_klim]

>Powershell is obscenely powerful, it is equal to anything Bash can do plus:

Yeah, modern shells should stop pretending that everything is text. That's ridiculous. Powershell is doing a good job here.

As for power, powershell is to weak compared to Python or Ruby, too few libraries and fancy stuff, at least on unices. Maybe it could compete with Racket, but Racket is a much nicer language IMHO.

[dublin]

Agreed - Since MS has open-sourced PowerShell, it really should get picked up and used by more folks in the Linux community - it seems like its mostly decades of bad blood preventing that, even though it's a clearly superior 21st century approach. My allegiance is to great tools, and I'm learning PowerShell b/c of this...