From: already5chosen@yahoo.com

On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:33:23 -0000 (UTC)
Michael Sanders  wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:27:32 -0000 (UTC), Michael Sanders wrote:
>
> > witness: echo hello world? | | tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
>
> typo, should be: echo hello world? | tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
>

I agree that Powershell is too complicated and too "wannabe real
programming language" which makes it bad shell scripting language.
Esp. so for quick throwaway scripts.

However I don't quite understand what you find wrong with cmd.exe.
Cryptic? May be. But I can not imagine shell scripting language which is
not cryptic in some way.
Has few limitations that one would not expect in shell script in 2025?
Yes.
C:>set a= 1000000
C:>set /A ab= %a% * 1000
1000000000
C:>set /A ab= %a% * 2000
2000000000
C:>set /A ab= %a% * 3000
-1294967296

But cmd.exe language certainly is *not* over-complicated. Rather more
like too primitive.

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