This is why I love guix! Everyone is super respectful. I know I've asked some questionable (newbie) questions before, and everyone always treated me with dignity! We've got some kind people here!
Thanks! February 2, 2021 2:52 PM, "Leo Famulari" <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote: > >> Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> writes: >> >> Hi Yasu, >> >> "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post? >> >> Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind. This >> post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on the >> inclusion of Powershell?" >> >> From Yasu's mail, when I read: >> I say Powershell is almost synonymous with IT worker rights >> >> I was really wondering what was happening here. I mean, we are talking >> about a M$ product, right? I really can't see how this statement can >> hold true. If it means "when I'm _forced_ to work on windows, >> powershell is the lest worse thing", then fine. But I don't get how >> having it available in guix would help then. > > I understand that there may be an atmosphere of suspicion regarding > Microsoft within a GNU project, but we should really try to give a more > charitable interpretation to messages on the Guix mailing lists, > especially if we aren't sure what the sender meant. Remember, Yasu will > read your replies, too. > > I don't use Windows regularly, but Powershell seems *really* cool. It's > a very different paradigm than the Unix shell. It seems like it was > designed to solve a lot of the limitations and quirks that plague Unix > shell scripting. It may be that Powershell won't catch on because shell > scripting isn't popular on Windows, but Unix + Powershell sounds > amazing, and I've been interested in it for years.
