--- title: the inventor of PowerShell's first job was programming... description: Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, shares an anecdote about his first programming job as a co-op student at Raytheon, where he was tasked with solving... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-inventor-of-powershell-s-first-job-was-programming-missels--mvadbszpp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: the inventor of PowerShell's first job was programming missels?!?!?! | daily.dev og:description: Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, shares an anecdote about his first programming job as a co-op student at Raytheon, where he was tasked with solving... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-inventor-of-powershell-s-first-job-was-programming-missels--mvadbszpp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mVAdBSZpP.png og:image:alt: the inventor of PowerShell's first job was programming missels?!?!?! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # the inventor of PowerShell's first job was programming missels?!?!?! **[We Are .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/wearedotnet)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, shares an anecdote about his first programming job as a co-op student at Raytheon, where he was tasked with solving a missile sensor problem involving four-dimensional flight paths and pattern recognition to determine if a seeker could detect a tank. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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