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by bombcar 5 days ago
This is actually one of the few places powershell begins to do something close to shine - the cli mixes data and commands in a way that we really shouldn't have to do.

The saddest thing is even ASCII has characters to help with this but since keyboards can't type them nobody used them.

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If keyboards did have keys for ASCII delimiters, people would start using them for a variety of purposes, and they'd start showing up in data streams, leading to the same issues we face with the typable delimiter characters we currently use. It's sort of a catch-22.