Good afternoon, I am currently writing a research paper on the history of PowerShell and was wondering if anyone had any good websites? I find this topic very interesting and currently know very little about it. Thanks for any help.

A serious treatment would include a reading of

Jeffrey Snover's "Monad Manifesto"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/03/19/monad-manifesto-the-origin-of-windows-powershell.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-postattachments/00-01-91-05-67/Monad-Manifesto-_2D00_-Public.doc

and

Bruce Payette's book "Windows PowerShell in Action"

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Powershell-Action-Bruce-Payette/dp/1932394907

• Edited by Larry Weiss Friday, April 12, 2013 7:33 PM
• Marked as answer by mad_hatter40 Friday, April 12, 2013 8:44 PM

Thank you, This is a great start.

Andy Oakley's book "Monad" published by O'Reilly, and in particular its Foreword by Jeffrey Snover, is worth a read by anyone interested in the history (and the initial version, v1.0, i.e. the essence) of PowerShell. (I'm looking around now to see if I can find when the Monad project started.)