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What the PowerShell is trying to be is more of a Lisp descendant, something to which Unix has been mostly deaf.

"Unixy" invokes very specific concepts; it is not a synonym for "computer sciency", "intellectually agreeable" or "non-sucky in some ways". (Relative to some things, it sometimes is these things, though!)

Dumb character processing is "unixy", and Bash is in fact "dead unixy".

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The "Unixy" approach is called "worse is better"

https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

Worse-is-better is rather a class of which unixy-approach is just one instance, or perhaps a derived class.

There is all kinds of worse is better. A $20 Shimano-branded rear derailleur made in Indonesia on your bicycle is worse-is-better; nothing to do with Unix.

Isn't that what I said?

A funny cat picture posted all over the place is called a meme, but not all memes are cat pictures.

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