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Do automation without hiring a bunch of PhDs

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Remember that every time you use powershell you make a monkey out of yourself, hehe.

From the Microsoft employee:

"... the original impetus behind what became PowerShell (as handed down to us in a conference room by Ballmer himself, sometime around 2001) was to fill the gap between ops people who did enterprise administration manually with tools like MMC and engineers who automated enterprise administration with tools like C++/DCOM. The latter were necessary in a lot of cases, but they were expensive, and we needed to give the industry a way to do powerful automation without hiring a bunch of PhDs."

Long live Cygwin.


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Authors: ag