The Old New Thing

A new scripting language doesn't solve everything

April 27, 2006 Apr 27, 2006 04/27/06

Raymond Chen

Yes, there are plenty of scripting languages that are much better than boring old batch. Batch files were definitely a huge improvement over back in 1981, but they've been showing their age for quite some time. The advanced age of boring old batch, on the other hand, means that you have millions of batch files out there that you had better ...