Microsoft PowerShell: Bye Bye DOS Box
Bit of cross-pollination here... I was planning to blog a bit here about Microosft's PowerShell in the near future. But, when I saw Microsoft Open Source Labs' Bill Hilf discuss, I decided to give my own opinions on the topic over at O'Reilly Media's Inside Port 25 site. You can find my commentary there linked below...
As an old C-Shell and, now, Bash Shell user as well as one who often writes quick utilities in Ruby (used to use Python a lot before switching to Ruby), I've been watching what was called Monad develop into PowerShell. It combines the power of the UNIX/Linux shells many of us grew up on with the scripting power we found in dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby. You can download PowerShell from...
Note that while production versions are available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the Vista version is a Release Candidate.
Why the "Bye Bye DOS Box"
Why the "Bye Bye DOS Box" title? Surely the point of DOS Box is to run DOS programs, not just to have a text based interface (which every version of Windows has anyway).