1 *NIX and/or Java Response to MS PowerShell {anchor:*NIX and/or Java Response to MS PowerShell} The {link:recent relase of Microsoft's PowerShell|http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1952246} (formerly Monad) makes me wonder if the open-source community will rise to the challenge of providing something as good for *NIX, or if they will simply live in denial of MS's genuine advancement/advantage. I think that we now need to update all of our *NIX/Windows Advantage/Disadvantage tables and move the "scriptability" check to the other column. It's not even clear that you could create something similar for *NIX. PowerShell is build on .Net so actually has lots of Objects to script, whereas an Object-based shell on *NIX would be lacking any Objects to script. Actually, UNIX is an OO system in a very limited fashion, be it one with only one interface: File. When {link:I had breakfast with James Gosling}, I asked him if the Solaris team at Sun was doing anything with Java to add MSH-like capabilities to Solaris, and to make a long answer short, he said "no". Many of the high-order functional programming aspects of MSH remind me of a UNIX shell from around 1990 called "Es". You can read about it here: {link:Es: A shell with higher-order functions|http://www.webcom.com/~haahr/es/es-usenix-winter93.html} 2006-04-28 10:44:21.191 2006-04-28 10:43:42.66