Microsoft Next Generation Shell

An anonymous reader writes "I found this while searching for Perl Jobs in India: "The Microsoft Next Generation Shell Team is designing and developing a new command line scripting environment from the ground up. The new shell and utilities, based on the .NET Frameworks, will provide a very rich object-based mechanism for managing system properties. To be delivered in the next release of Windows, it will include the attributes of competitors' shells (e.g. aliases, job control, command substitution, pipelines, regular expressions, transparent remote execution) plus rich features based on Windows and .NET (e.g. command discovery via .NET reflection API's, object-based properties/methods, 1:many server scripting, pervasive auto-complete)."

Comments

This is a new low for Microsoft

[voodoo1man]

So now they are re-inventing both Unix ("e.g. aliases, job control, command substitution, pipelines, regular expressions, transparent remote execution") and Lisp and/or VMS ("e.g. command discovery via .NET reflection API's, object-based properties/methods, 1:many server scripting, pervasive auto-complete") at the same time in the same product. Isn't it wonderful that mainstream computing is still stuck in the 80s?

C# sucks

[HanzoSan]

Yeah I'm primitive as hell right? I'm smart enough to know you dont beat the competition by copying them, then again maybe thats Why Microsoft always beat Apple, they dont innovate they copy.

Re:C# sucks

[HanzoSan]

Dont you have a life?

Or is your single purpose in life to ruin the life of someone else?

I dont usually recommend suicide but people like you humanity has no real use for.