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Warning: This article contains swearing (Quoted, from Bill Gates).

As a UNIX-aligned engineer, I've always looked down on anything Microsoft.

But a recent cross-platform project forced me to learn PowerShell โ€” a technology which, just like blockchain, is amusing by how its core idea almost makes sense.

I want to explore the psychological impact that a piece of documentation had on me. A political piece on par with Machiavelli, "The Monad Manifesto."

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[โ€“] underscores@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

PowerShell is fantastic in practice but whenever I think of writing shell scripts I think of bash first.

Bash is a lot more pleasant to work with overall, the biggest concern most people have is that it can be cryptic. IMO PowerShell scripts can be the exact same kind of voodoo.