[spiralx]

> PowerShell is "Python interactive done right".

Actually PowerShell is "Perl interactive done right" if you read what the designers say about their influences - the automatic variable $_ is straight from Perl and the array creation syntax @(a, b, c) is also a Perl-ism from @arr = (a, b, c). Which is funny as I dislike Perl intensely but really like PowerShell :)

To be fair there's not much Perl in PS, it's as much influenced by KSH, Awk, cmd.exe and VBScript as Perl. Thankfully "influenced by" isn't "a melange of", because a combination of all of those sounds like an abomination lol, and PS is wonderful in being about as consistent and simple as a proper shell can get.