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by blueflow 997 days ago
If you call python a legacy scripting language, i'll call Windows (where powershell runs on) a legacy operating system.
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geocrasher 997 days ago
Sure, Windows doesn't have "legacy" like VMS or Unix etc, but it's been in use by every day people longer than any other current OS except for MacOS, which really isn't the same OS it launched as, whereas Windows has maintained backwards compatibility (for better for for worse) for decades. So.. Legacy? Why not.
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keepamovin 996 days ago
This is the most civilized flame war I have ever seen. :)
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psd1 996 days ago
I didn't mean to describe python as "legacy"; it is a great choice for scripting in the year 2023. It's second only to pwsh for that.

I use pwsh on Linux every day.

Anything that isn't a lisp machine is a legacy OS ;-)

I realise I've given offense, for which I'm sorry, but I'm driven not so much to denigrate bash as to advocate for a world where shells are semantic.

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