>>revico+(OP)
The fact that the administration didn't choose to sue them to oblivion is refreshing. I hope we'll see a trend in the future of educator being smart enough to admit that they made a mistake and to encourage the students to develop their talent.
>>bluedi+K2
Credit where credit is due, we all WISH *nix had something like PowerShell. Passing strings from program to program is a pain, passing around .NET objects instead is a great step forward, as can be seen by the several attempts at similar shells passing around JSON objects.
>>throwa+hc
And behind the scenes of internet-based services there's a whole ecosystem of "how can we do shit more robustly than just passing strings around" (or even for "better than XML or JSON").