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		jodrellblank on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken ... Windows has been embracing composable shell tools, scripting and automation for over a decade with PowerShell; Microsoft Exchange management was powershell in 2010 including the GUI which also generated the cli code in case you wanted to automate what you just clicked through.

anthk on June 10, 2019 [–]

PowerShell syntax is too verbose (That's why I hate Java and .Net). Also, UNIX' composability and parallel execution (no pun intended) wins over objects.

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