<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2024, 7:35 AM Douglas McIlroy <<a href="mailto:douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Eloquently put. Amen!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">doug</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> Unix brought automation to the forefront of possibilities. Using Unix,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> anyone could do it - even that kid in Jurassic Park. Today, everything</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> is GUI and nothing can be automated easily or, most of the time,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> not at all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> Unix is an ever shrinking oasis in a desert of non-automation and complexity.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">> It is the loss of automation possibilities that frustrates me the most</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do I have to be that guy? I hate windows. I love Unix. But the above isn't really true. MS has actually done a good job of catching up in that department. All major apps have Powershell libraries. I envy some features of Powershell, but I still won't use it unless I have to.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One example is PowerCLI, which is very useful for vSphere automation. Easier to use than their other language APIs, in my opinion. I could go on with other examples (Active Directory, MSSQL, Exchange), but I think the point is made...</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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