[TUHS] Re: most direct Unix descendant

[Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>]

Hi A. P.,

> All major apps have Powershell libraries.  I envy some features of
> Powershell, but I still won't use it unless I have to.
>
> One example is PowerCLI, which is very useful for vSphere automation.
> Easier to use than their other language APIs, in my opinion.

The grandfather of your post address Powershell earlier on.

https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/message/QZVFRCYM2MEJ4VNZPORBUAKIS6WG6LIY/
> The concept of producing a stream of text as the output of a program
> that does simple jobs well has been replaced by "power-shell" thinking
> of passing binary objects rather than text between program
> - a decidedly non-portable idea.
>
> Passing "objects" requires attaching to a dynamically linked library
> (that will change or even disappear with the next release of the OS or
> the object library).  With Research Unix, I could pipe the output of
> a Unix program running on an Intel 486 to another program running on
> a Motorola 68000 or a Zilog Z80000 or an IBM AIX machine.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.