Bash gets the extend, embrace, extinguish treatment
Its nice that Microsoft finally cottons on to the idea of a proper shell -- this whole MS-DOS command.com thing has been hanging on decades beyond its sell-by date.(It was a hacked up version of an early shell with CP/M 'notes' anyway... crude and simple but adequate for simple tasks.) Since there are a lot of people out there who only know Windows its natural that they would treat this as the Second Coming, the "Shell to Replace all Shells" but those of us who've been living with shells for decades just stifle a yawn - its just another Microsoft copy of a standard program with enough twists and tweaks to make it platform specific. Yes, of course it will be portable but it will be a bit like .NET -- "portable-ish", or "not really" -- but nothing like as flexible as the real thing and as my Windows diehard Millennial son discovered its missing a lot of useful features. (Side note here -- as any parent will know its quite normal for one's children to disregard parental advice -- any advice, from the personal to the technical. So out of touch parent tells with-it kid over a period of a decade or two that maybe there's something to be learned from these weird 'ix' systems with their arcane command line commands. With-it kid just goes down the MSFT rabbit hole into the labyrinth of confusion and complexity that comes with badly thought out and badly structured code (but, hey, its knowledge, isn't it?) only to find that it really is a bit of a blind alley after all, there's nothing you can do on Windows that you can't do with a lot less hassle on Linux and so on.)(Rules of parenting all kids, including adult versions, include never to openly say "I told you so...." but its soooo tempting......)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
