Re: PowerShell core? off topic praise

[jbranso]

This is why I love guix!  Everyone is super respectful.  I know I've 
asked some questionable (newbie) questions before, and everyone always
treated me with dignity!  We've got some kind people here!

Thanks!

February 2, 2021 2:52 PM, "Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote:
> 
>> Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> writes:
>> 
>> Hi Yasu,
>> 
>> "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post?
>> 
>> Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind. This
>> post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on the
>> inclusion of Powershell?"
>> 
>> From Yasu's mail, when I read:
>> I say Powershell is almost synonymous with IT worker rights
>> 
>> I was really wondering what was happening here. I mean, we are talking
>> about a M$ product, right? I really can't see how this statement can
>> hold true. If it means "when I'm _forced_ to work on windows,
>> powershell is the lest worse thing", then fine. But I don't get how
>> having it available in guix would help then.
> 
> I understand that there may be an atmosphere of suspicion regarding
> Microsoft within a GNU project, but we should really try to give a more
> charitable interpretation to messages on the Guix mailing lists,
> especially if we aren't sure what the sender meant. Remember, Yasu will
> read your replies, too.
> 
> I don't use Windows regularly, but Powershell seems *really* cool. It's
> a very different paradigm than the Unix shell. It seems like it was
> designed to solve a lot of the limitations and quirks that plague Unix
> shell scripting. It may be that Powershell won't catch on because shell
> scripting isn't popular on Windows, but Unix + Powershell sounds
> amazing, and I've been interested in it for years.