Deleting files, keeping a few

Inspired by this post, how it works in PowerShell:

Get-ChildItem *.log | Sort-Object lastWriteTimeUtc -descending | Select-Object -skip 3 | Remove-Item

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will delete all but the most recent 3 files ending in ".log"; and it would be the same sort of thing in any scripting language.