9 Jun
2024
9 Jun
'24
5:59 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 9, 2024, 7:35 AM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu wrote:
Eloquently put. Amen!
doug
Do I have to be that guy? I hate windows. I love Unix. But the above isn't
really true. MS has actually done a good job of catching up in that
department. All major apps have Powershell libraries. I envy some features
of Powershell, but I still won't use it unless I have to.
One example is PowerCLI, which is very useful for vSphere automation.
Easier to use than their other language APIs, in my opinion. I could go on
with other examples (Active Directory, MSSQL, Exchange), but I think the
point is made...
Unix brought automation to the forefront of
possibilities. Using Unix,
anyone could do it - even that kid in Jurassic Park. Today, everything
is GUI and nothing can be automated easily or, most of the time,
not at all.
Unix is an ever shrinking oasis in a desert of
non-automation and
complexity.
It is the loss of automation possibilities that
frustrates me the most