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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