> You probably heard of the famous McIlroy vs Knuth story (legend?), where a pipe of a few commands turned out to be more efficient than a Knuth data structure.
Since very few shell scripts run continuously for long periods of time, it's hard to justify prioritizing runtime efficiency over development time.
I remember ActiveState's Perl and the standard Windows version of Python have some API hooks that can be useful for manipulating Windows-only things. Can help leverage Cygwin tools on Windows.
Having said that, I always used Cygwin when I had to use Windows. It felt, of course, detached from the rest of the system, but it was a small island of sanity in a sea of APIs, registries and metabases... PowerShell is, indeed, a perfect match for the environment it evolved on.
As for the "can you do this" thing, I run bash on Android. Can PowerShell run on Windows Phones ;-)
To be sincere I also prefer to develop in .NET with Visual Studio than in Java. And, if you ask me about the mobile market ($$$) size, I prefer iOS than Android. I see a lot of crap on the Android Market and a lack of high quality applications.
It's hard to stand out within the Play app store, but the lack of competitors is actually an opportunity. And while I really hate using Java for web applications, Android is quite nice to develop for, once you get the rules and learn to navigate the boilerplate. I also find the wide selection of devices comforting when compared to the one size fits all idea (even if the one size is the one dictated by Saint Steven of Cupertino himself)
I have a doubt about the opportunities vs risks associated. For example, I am not seeing interactive books like the ones on the iOS platform. I understand that from the developer perspective there are a lot of work but this is because the entrepreneur carries the risk and not the final developer/non-founder
I know Android is Linux based, and, for background, I'm an experienced Linux user/developer, but have never checked out Android as a Linux till now, though I've heard that phones can be rooted. So my q is: what all can you do with bash on Android - as compared to bash on a desktop or server Linux? Interested to know because I have an Android phone. Do you get all or some of the Linux command-line commands like awk, sed, etc.? Do command pipelines work? Thanks for any info you can give.
Since very few shell scripts run continuously for long periods of time, it's hard to justify prioritizing runtime efficiency over development time.
I remember ActiveState's Perl and the standard Windows version of Python have some API hooks that can be useful for manipulating Windows-only things. Can help leverage Cygwin tools on Windows.
Having said that, I always used Cygwin when I had to use Windows. It felt, of course, detached from the rest of the system, but it was a small island of sanity in a sea of APIs, registries and metabases... PowerShell is, indeed, a perfect match for the environment it evolved on.
As for the "can you do this" thing, I run bash on Android. Can PowerShell run on Windows Phones ;-)