[pjmlp]

PowerShell is the only mainstream shell that builds on the ideas of Lisp Machines, Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations, naturally I am quite found of it, despite some of its quirkiness.

It does structured data, native support for extending it via .NET and native libraries and at least on Windows, can plug into OS Automation libraries.

What it misses is graphical display on the REPL.

I can easily see PowerShell Core replacing my uses of Python in what concerns Linux VMs.

[swiley]

I think this talk actually came up in a thread on the guile mailing list about adding powershell as a guile language.