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What a great essay, if out of date - I suppose maybe Windows' PowerShell might have changed his opinion of NT?

I wonder if the whiff of elitism he mentions is still a reason for people to avoid UNIX, or if the availability of Linux has changed that.

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I would wager that he might grant some charity to PowerShell, but still hold onto his thesis. AFAIK, you operate on objects in PS, rather than parsing clear text in UNIX. PS is a much more powerful way to do things, but it seems that the UNIX way is much more grounded in human language than the Windows way, whether it be through a GUI or through PS.

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