PowerShell is a very interesting and powerful language, which also borrowed many aspects from Perl and some from Haskell.

• Interesting b/c instead of piping text, they are piping objects (in the first draft the language was named "Monad")
• Powerfull because these object have deep access into the OS and .NET-framework.

<update> Example:

• if you do ls PATTERN | grep PATTERN in bash, you are piping a list of lines and you'll end in regexing relevant fields like file-size.
• In PS you'll transport a list of objects , e.g. the file-size is just an attribute of one of the file-objects

</update>

But in my experience it's not an intuitive DWIM hack like bash, mainly because the syntax is lengthy with "Verb-Noun Thing -options" structure

Example: To tail in PS you need Get-Content PATH.txt -Tail 10

They try to compensate this "wordy" structure with aliases for common commands like:

Standard Aliases for Get-Content: cat, type, gc

Though it still doesn't feel like CLI scripting (to me)

BUT: For many things PS is the only viable alternative.

My current strategy is to write Perl wrappers shelling out to PS.

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