Jeffrey Snover

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Jeffrey Snover (* in Seattle ) is an American software developer and software architect . Since December 1999 he has been working for the software company Microsoft .

After studying physics at the University of New Hampshire , Snover worked, among other things, as a development manager and architect at Tivoli , as a consulting software engineer for the DEC management group, at Apollo Computer and Storage Tech and various start-ups . After moving to Microsoft at the end of 1999, he initially worked there for a while as a divisional architect of the management group.

Snover was best known as the "inventor" and chief architect of Microsoft's new object-oriented command line interpreter Windows PowerShell , the development of which began in early 2003 under the code name Monad . Snover, who, the idea of object - Pipeline had and the first prototypes in the programming language C # implemented. After version 1.0 was completed in November 2006, Windows PowerShell was downloaded almost a million times within six months.

Furthermore, Snover is the chief architect of the next generation of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). In the future, all Windows administration tools of the MMC are to be based on the Windows PowerShell under the graphical user interface , so that Windows can be administered completely via the graphical user interface or alternatively via the command line.

Quotes

  • “It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, could, or even should, eliminate CLIs.” ( “It was a mistake to believe that graphical user interfaces would, could, or should ever replace command lines.” )

Publications

  • Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto - the Origin of Windows PowerShell , 2007
  • Payette, Bruce: Windows PowerShell in use , Hanser Fachbuchverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3446412392 (foreword)

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  1. ↑ Jeffrey Snover: Script Center: Interview with a script writer . Microsoft TechNet. September 2005. Retrieved August 15, 2007.
  2. ↑ Jeffrey Snover: PowerShell Hits a Million Downloads in the First Six Months . Windows PowerShell Team Blog (Microsoft). June 4, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Snover: TUI - The Ultimate User Interface . Windows PowerShell Team Blog (Microsoft). May 10, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007.
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SURNAME Snover, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American software developer and software architect
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle