Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer<p>Basically, bit by bit it seems Microsoft are realising there is a ton of stuff they need to take from the unix environment.<p>The comments here about how awesome PowerShell and the other tools within all are seem to focus on everything being an object rather than being text.<p>So, we could fix that by basically providing a "Ruby shell" in one sweep. You go through the standard utilities you have on unix systems, provide them as Ruby methods on various objects (the Ruby stdlib has a great many) and provide a means to navigate a file system easily, and basically you have the beginnings of an object-orientated shell with the support of the traditional 30+ year old command line utilities.<p>What is it I am missing? This feels all a little reminiscent of when Microsoft got all giddy about providing symbolic links... well... yeah... I mean... what?