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I've grown to like PS. Passing data around in Bash is done purely with plain text strings, which to me means it's as brittle as it can get. PowerShell hangs on to actual objects with properties and methods, and can leverage many things from .NET, so I find working with it is somewhat similar to working with a debugger when I need to explore an object's properties and values as a process is running live. This is particularly valuable when I'm not familiar at all with some new object type.
When I want to automate something and building an EXE is overkill, PS is pretty much my go-to solution.
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whilst a lot of powershell stuff is self explanatory I only really use it via copy and paste as I cannot stand all that typing
I have always thought that it was crying out to be implemented using a gui with autocomplete
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PowerShell has had tab completion since at least version 2 (2009) which has got better over time. O.K. It's never been as good as Linux/Bash tab completion, but it is there 
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PowerShell ISE is the already present IDE for PS. That might help flatten the learning curve
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I, and a couple of coworkers, installed and tried out the desktop Power Automate. We all came to the same conclusion.
That is quite a bit of hassle to do something that Office's build-in macro functions and rules already do better.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Can confirm he improves performance and reduces bugs by 25%. Best computer upgrade so far.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 17-Jan-22 9:19am.
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color matching, as well. 
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Cool
He looks to be standing... as your PC were an american indian and Bob the feather in the forehead 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Who is bob? The one's in Tekken 7?
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Bob is the site mascot. The little alien guy at the top of the page (and on the sticker on my PC) - his name is Bob.
This had a photo with it but it looks like it got moved from Insider Photos to the lounge and lost its pic.
Real programmers use butterflies
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If you cross a snowman with a vampire, do you get frostbite?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You got it correctly, right off the bat!
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And if you cross a vampire with a snowman you get an abominable overbite.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Ah you know my ex then? 
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... and the next, you're turning down the stereo in your car, so you can see better! 
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Waddaya say Sonnie? Speak up a little so I can hear you, will you? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Stereo? Stereo? Wadya mean "Stereo"?
Didja mean the Wireless?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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so very true. 
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Yup. 
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First of all, let me get the standard complaint out of the way about their updates causing me problems way too frequently on everything from my video to my network stack.
Second, as I've coded more cross platform things in C++ these days, it has become painfully apparent to me just how proprietary Windows is designed. Apple's OS is POSIX. Unixes are POSIX. Heck, even my little ESP32 IoT devices are kinda POSIX - at least as much as they can be. This means that if I want to use sockets, I can write the same or almost the same code for each platform. Same for memory mapped files, etc. So my code has to fork specifically for Windows and only Windows. This is especially critical in C++ where there isn't a massive framework that encompasses modern OS functionality like there is with say, Java or .NET.
Finally, outside of Visual Studio, their development tools are the worst. Thank you Microsoft though, for VS Code, which makes Visual Studio less important. I'm sorry, I know I'll probably get a lot of pushback for this, but on paper, in broad strokes, Microsoft's C++ compiler is a lot more standard in theory than it is in practice. Microsoft's compiler team apparently has never quite understood templates. You can't metaprogram with the thing. It won't resolve complex constexpr statements very well either. Not the way GCC and Clang can. Bottom line is I can write code that will compile on gcc or clang with a -std=C++XX option and get reliable results - the code will also compile on other compilers using that same option. I haven't figured out how to do that with Microsoft's offering. Their compiler barfs on almost everything nontrivial I've ever written using templates. Also GCC is built on the LLVM backend (which can even render to asm.js) which Microsoft has no answer for. I'll take the best compiler over the best IDE any day of the week, if I have to choose. GCC and Clang are it. I use GCC to build windows dlls and exes these days.
I have more issues with it I'm sure, but I'll have to wait until the next time Windows reminds me of one.
It's getting to the point where I'm looking for an excuse to leave it behind altogether.
Flame away. 
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 18-May-21 7:33am.
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You could give it up all together and take up black magick sorcery...or not. Not sure it will get any better.
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I like to combine that with programming though. it makes maintenance fun.
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It's the chicken sacrifice each time I instantiate a class that gets me ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You know, if you had a horcrux you could just plant it in some cemetery dirt and spare the poultry. It's less messy, but has some nasty side effects, like potential immortality.
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It also doesn't work with abstract base classes. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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