[goatinaboat]

Powershell has abbreviations (aliases) for common commands and fantastic autocompletion for flags and arguments passed to cmdlets. Where-Object|Format-Table is just ?|ft for example.

Also remember that in PowerShell there's very little munging - half of any serious shell script is sed/cut/awk/tr and so on to munge the output of one command into the input of the next. That more than makes up for PowerShell's individual commands or cmdlets having more characters in.