I'm still quiet young and I use bat in most automated processes: launching applications with parameters. Find which port my harddrive is on before backing-up to it. Dir is still quicker then powershell get-child.

As an amateur I'm so glad to see this post. Javascript was the pre-compiler stage of my programming endeavors. Now I've parced 37MB of dumptext into a database-import using 20 seconds of C-code I really don't want to go back to javascript. Anything with Java in the name, 'cept perhaps the island, is eligible for garbage-collecting I feel. The fact that microsoft is ARM-ing it's Windows 8, nullyfying my x86 efforts has pushed me towards exploring Linux for the first time. F*ck mobile look&feel, give me functionality & data generation/retention/treatment. Are you going to finger-swipe your finances on an Ipad - html- cloud application? Or are you gonna sit and type the numbers into a tool that will guard your data, allow you to encrypt/back it up, and tell you the bottomline? Are we going to see scripting tools developed for the power user/ hacker on the Iphone? How are we going to 'opensource-project' applications on mobile devices: "This is freeware, use at own responsibility, BTW: Pay Apple on your way out."? This Angry bird feels like the mobile-world has forgotten what 'application' and 'computer' stood for. I remember before Java (IL) made programs portable to other platforms that native apps worked identical every time. You relied on it as a tester. Today it's like : "try it again, it'l probably work a second time around!" Mobile 'browser-based', really?, they couldn't make it to run on your favorite text-editor? Evolution: stone-knife - typewriter - electronic memory - 4G Ram Computer ... and back (add 'mobile-').