The Man Behind Windows PowerShell
I haven't met a single person who likes PowerShell. It's perhaps the textbook example of ugly design that looks technically consistent but utterly unfriendly and mind bogglingly verbose. I am not saying Windows command line is great or bash is best, but at least those things are designed for humans at certain extent. I have written few ps scripts and virtually every line, every step, every task almost always required googling. I don't know anything about Snover but my image of PowerShell designer was someone who couldn't write more sophisticated parser and compensated that lack of skills and creativity to solve fundamental challenges in designing OO shell by offloading complexity and unfriendlyness on users. Basically just reverse of Steve Jobs.<p>It was aweful when PowerShell team tried to shove their ugly creation down people's throats by removing Shift+right click menu for "Command prompt here" by "PowerShell here". Not a sign of good product when you have to force it upon people. The designers of this thing should have been demoted, let alone making them "Distinguished Engineer".