[throwaway19972]

> the design of Unix shell is bonkers

Compared to what?

[mdavid626]

Powershell?

[poincaredisk]

PowerShell designer could learn from decades of programming language progress and especially shell usage. They could improve many aspects indeed. This doesn't mean that the original design is "bonkers", only that it's not perfect.

[oguz-ismail]

Verbosity is a huge problem there

[ggm]

FoundTheCamelCaseConvert.

My God next you will say getopt() --longform is the bestest