INTRODUCTION
A book about bat files? Why? Didn’t the Aztecs use Batch? Isn’t it the Betamax of scripting languages? You should be writing a book about a newer, sexier coding language instead of a Model T repair manual.
I wish that I could dismiss out of hand such protestations as simply the negativism of nattering nabobs, but this is a sentiment I feel compelled to address. Batch isn’t new, and the lack of some functionality is mystifying by today’s standards, but it’s still an immensely useful language that isn’t going away anytime soon, especially since it’s being packaged with the operating system installed on every Windows computer. While ...
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