Thanks for this candid impression. I had some slight interest in learning PowerShell, but it looked like a little bit too high of a learning curve, given that I had other scripting languages I could use (including bash in Cygwin). Piped objects struck me as interesting when I read about it in a magazine, too, but somehow they aren't needed to perform all kinds of scripting in *nix, so I wonder if they might be more complex than the problem called for. I get the impression that PowerShell may suffer from having come from Microsoft -- a company with bottomless pockets to spend on developing software and probably little need to stop smallish system utilities from becoming ornate.
