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Why is it bad? I've been able to write some pretty great PS scripts to automate tasks. It's easier than firing up Visual Studio and writing a C# program I'd need to recompile if I ever want to change it.

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It's very powerful but the syntax is step back 20 years:

    If ($Number -gt 0)

That's just one example. There is a lot of really confusing stuff in powershell that's entirely unnecessary. There were going for some kind of Bash-shell familiarity which, oddly enough, most Windows developers don't even have.

I'd say the usage of -lt and the like is because angle brackets are used for piping data.

The shell is a mess of symbols making any sane programming language impossible. Instead of perhaps rethinking the "mess of symbols" issue they ruined the language instead.

Have you considered F#? Works well for scripting.

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