[poincaredisk]

PowerShell designer could learn from decades of programming language progress and especially shell usage. They could improve many aspects indeed. This doesn't mean that the original design is "bonkers", only that it's not perfect.

[pjmlp]

The way Powershell works is largely based on what the computing world was doing with shells outside Bell Labs, at IBM, Xerox, and others places, exactly at similar timeframe as UNIX was happening.

[mdavid626]

Can you give examples of what should be improved in PowerShell?