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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Powershell's name is no joke. I've studied it superficially, and it really *is* powerful. Actually, it seems to be a complete programming environment. As far as I was able to see, it probably at least matches, maybe even exceeds the common shells you care to use on Unix.
From 1996 to the beginning of 1999, I had to work with the DOS BAT-scripts (thank god for 4NT... which made it a bit better), while I came from OS/2. It included a very powerful CMD-shell and the scripting language REXX. I was shocked to find out that Windows NT's "CMD.exe" was no better than DOS's, and that it had nothing to do with the highly powerful "CMD.exe" in OS/2. Cygwin did and does all I need and I was in heaven after discovering it in 1999.
At the time Powershell came along, I didn't need it anymore. Maybe, one day, I may need it if I want to script Windows-specific stuff.
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REXX was a mainframe port - from VM/CMS / MVS/Z-OZ world...
I have the mainframe manuals around here somewhere...