Interesting interview with the creator of PowerShell https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/ep-37-the-man-behind-windows-powershell/
I like this bit: "What's interesting is that the pattern on UNIX is you start writing it in some dirty Bash, and then you get 30 lines, and realize you're completely over your head, and so, you rewrite it in Python. Or in the old day, Perl, today, Python."