Re: Announcing jj5-win

Disregard my below rant about WPF and powershell.  Now that I take 10
seconds to look, it is *not* a WPF based UI...   not sure how I got it into
my head that it was.

I think I was mis-remembering some inhouse prototype that I saw...
 probably a perf-test app to measure scrolling/clipping performance in WPF.

After a few years inside MS, it became very difficult for me to keep track
of what was real and what was imaginary... lol.

-S


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote:

>     del /s *
> ?
>
> Maybe that doesn't work on XP..?   Try this...
>
>     for /f "usebackq delims=" %I in (`dir /s /b /a-d`) do @del "%I"
>
> Or expand to something like this, if you need special handling for
> readonly/hidden files, or symlinks.
>
>     for /f "usebackq delims=" %I in (`dir /s /b /a-d`) do (
>         @attrib -s -h -r "%I"
>         @del "%I"
>     )
>
> Even I haven't yet found the patience to learn powershell.   It was a
> great idea, but the fact that they built the console UI with WPF frightens
> me greatly.  (And I say that as a huge WPF fan...  it's just the wrong tool
> for the job.  And the wrong job for the tool, from a program mgmt
> perspective -- there are dozens maybe hundreds of OS features that could
> benefit from a WPF rewrite.  But the cmd console?  wtf...  yeah I really
> wanted my cmd console process to use 30x more memory, and scroll shit slow
> because my server box can't do hw accel clipping, or rasterization of font
> glyphs, or what have you)
>
> Anyway, long ago, before the advent of powershell...  for anything that I
> couldn't reasonably do via ordinary cmd script, I wrote a little 2-line
> script to compile and execute a JScript.NET file.
>
> I still have a collection of about a dozen of those little .js scriptlets,
> which I use for things like beautifying xml files, converting a text file
> to/from UTF8 or UTF16, converting tabs to spaces in source files, etc etc.
>
> I should clean up those scripts and post them somewhere.   JScript.NET is
> all but abandoned, as a language, I gather, but the jsc.exe compiler for
> CLR v2 is preinstalled on Windows, so as long as that remains true, who
> cares.  :-)
>
> -S
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:46 PM, John Elliot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-03-25 11:25, Adwait Ullal wrote:
>> > Powershell?
>>
>> BASH? :)
>>
>> I think I'm done learning about new Microsoft technology. :P
>>
>> I'm still running Windows XP (in VMWare Fusion on my Mac) and can't see
>> myself upgrading any time soon.
>>
>> I'll just kick along with my old tricks for now.
>>
>> What did you think of my idea of finding distinct characters to use in
>> 'IDs' and 'codes' provided by my software? I think this could be a huge
>> boost to productivity as misheard and misread characters waste the time
>> of a lot of people every day.
>>
>>
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