November 27th, 2007

Windows Developer Just Don’t Understand The Command Line

When I saw this post over on the Windows PowerShell Developers Blog. It really occurred to me for the first time that Windows Developers don’t understand the simplicity, power, and elegance that comes from a command line window. Our *NIX brothers have been saying this for years and I just took it for granted that everybody universally understood how great the command line was.

The following is an image of PowerShell Plus:

Funny Power Shell Commandline

Of the 3 things that make the command window so great, this is how many this application has:

  • Simplicity
  • Power
  • Elegance

If you want more information on PowerShell please go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx. It really is a great application that I have come to appreciate over the past couple of months.

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5 Responses to “Windows Developer Just Don’t Understand The Command Line”

  1. Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Windows Developer Don’t Understand Commandline Says:
    November 27th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    [...] Mtoo wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhen I saw this post over on the Windows PowerShell Developers Blog. It really occurred to me for the first time that Windows Developers don’t understand the simplicity, power, and elegance that comes from a command line window. … [...]

  2. /\/\o\/\/ Says:
    November 27th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    Press Ctrl-M ;-)

    more serious PowerShell plus is shown with all features turned on.

    I love working with PowerShell plus in a much more minimalistic mode .

    Greetings /\/\o\/\/

  3. Jeffrey Snover Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    I hear what you are saying but you should kick the PowerShell Plus tires for a bit before you reach your final conclusion. You can configure PS+ to be a very simple “console” window and then incrementally start adding the bells and whistles. Now - the question then is - who needs all the bells and whistles? PowerShell tries to be both a really good command line shell and a really good scripting language. As a scripting language, you really want some of the things you got from an IDE and this is where PS+ is doing a very good job.

    In contrast, the reality is that you just don’t get a lot of help debugging UNIX shell scripts.

    Anyway - my point is simply this: PowerShell is a different sort of a shell and thus has a different set of needs from the traditional simple console windows.

    BTW - I’ll also point out that one of the top 2 complains that we have received about PowerShell V1 is the fact that we run in the CONSOLE window which obviously has some issues. :-)

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    Windows Management Partner Architect
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  5. Sam Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 2:01 am

    Wow, I didn’t even know there was a PowerShell plus. I have the regular version that I have been using but I haven’t learned much about it. It does look a little better than the default terminal. I prefer my Cygwin terminal anyways.