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    A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell

    Fire up "cmd" in Windows XP and have a play around with the shell. Let's be honest, the shell is sh... rubbish. Fear not, however, for a new Microsoft Command Shell, or MSH for short, is on the way. Arse... sorry, Ars Technica, have taken a look at it.
    This is a moderately technical overview and it contains content that may be difficult for nonprogrammers to grasp, so those of you that don't have a background in software development may want to skip around and ignore some of the technical details. Rest assured, there is plenty of content here for regular users and system administrators as well as coders. The code samples are instructive by themselves, so if you get really bored, perusal of the examples will illuminate many of the features of MSH and save you some time.
    One for the sysadmins and code monkeys, but worth a read if it's your kind of thing.
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    been using the beta for a while, i love it, the way commands are layed out it just makes more sense to me, beats linux shells i've come accross hands down!

    in short, animus (the) says, get it.
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    The MSH syntax facilitates development with both functional and procedural idioms, but, like Python, it tends to favor the procedural style for conditional expressions and a few other common constructs. In practice, the combinatorial aspect of the interactive command environment suggests a functional style, but for elaborate scripting, MSH seems to enforce a moderately procedural approach.
    I hope the MSH language is easier to follow than the review!
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    erm, functional and procedural are paradigms of programing.

    ars write for a more jargon clued up user. If you do computer science degree you'll come accross, and learn to see the point (often lack there off) functional programmign.
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