[Tutor] [OT] Shells

[John Fouhy]

On 07/03/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
> I can't imagine life on Windoze without cygwin :-)

Agreed --- but the new Microsoft shell looks very interesting.

Ars has a good review of it here: http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars

It borrows from all over the place, including Perl, Python, (ba)sh,
and SQL, so the syntax sometimes seems to fight itself.  But, overall,
I'm very impressed.  It looks a lot like the python interpreter,
except customised to focus on file manipulation and process management
(since that's what shells are for).

--
John.