December 2017
Beginner
352 pages
10h 31m
English
We’ve used the words tool and toolmaking a lot so far in this book, and we’re almost ready to start building tools. But we need to acknowledge that the title of this book uses the word scripting, and that wasn’t meant as a bait and switch. You see, for us, scripting is a pretty generic word, and in the PowerShell universe we feel that it can refer to a couple of distinct and valuable things.
Think about a hammer. A hammer is a tool, and it’s probably one you’ve at least seen before, even if you’ve never wielded one. A hammer is a self-contained thing; it basically only does one thing: Strike other things. A hammer has no context about its life and no clue ...