Apart from having a pretty negative attitude, this smacks of somebody who just learned about scripts and automation.
Its nice Windows has finally decided to give their users a real tool to do their work with, and yeah, maybe some of the design (right now) is cleaner than in the traditional shell camps...
But this also sounds like somebody who wants to throw away mountains of expertise around other ecosystems (destructive behavior) just because they like their tool X. What I've never seen a PS user succinctly demonstrate is what new, good ideas PS brings to the table, other than its a better glue language for COM/.NET. And PS being extremely verbose means that frankly, nobody likes it (being verbose is garbage in shell languages - you made the comment that ruby/et. all "aren't shells", however they aren't shells in the same way that PS isn't a shell, they're large, bulky languages that don't take shortcuts).
Considering this is about learning PS, it would be good for a heavy user of PS such as yourself to actually expound on the specific things PS is good at, not the one-trick-ponies like some sql install command.
Its nice Windows has finally decided to give their users a real tool to do their work with, and yeah, maybe some of the design (right now) is cleaner than in the traditional shell camps...
But this also sounds like somebody who wants to throw away mountains of expertise around other ecosystems (destructive behavior) just because they like their tool X. What I've never seen a PS user succinctly demonstrate is what new, good ideas PS brings to the table, other than its a better glue language for COM/.NET. And PS being extremely verbose means that frankly, nobody likes it (being verbose is garbage in shell languages - you made the comment that ruby/et. all "aren't shells", however they aren't shells in the same way that PS isn't a shell, they're large, bulky languages that don't take shortcuts).
Considering this is about learning PS, it would be good for a heavy user of PS such as yourself to actually expound on the specific things PS is good at, not the one-trick-ponies like some sql install command.