[Viper007Bond]

Interestingly PowerShell is petty awesome in that regard. You pass around objects instead of trying to parse strings and things.

[sleepydog]

I don't think that's what the parent was complaining about, it was more about handling signals correctly. It's incredibly easy to write buggy signal handlers on a Linux system. The "self-pipe" trick[1], and later, signalfd(2) have made signal handling much easier, but a lot of programs still do it the old way.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html [2]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/signalfd.2.html

[vardump]

PowerShell is not Windows API, win32 is. So your comment makes little sense.

[reificator]

Powershell is just that, a shell. I agree that Powershell itself is pleasant enough to use but that's not what's being discussed.

[msla]

> You pass around objects instead of trying to parse strings and things.

That can't be very good for debuggability.

[pzone]

Type checking and calling help methods can be useful for debuggability! If you want to figure out what you're looking at in string format, call its .ToString method.