I guess I'm old. My first thought was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell
It probably should have been named CSShell :-)
CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
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Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#32Not very often you find a hedge fund behind an open source project. I guess it makes sense really, as many quants will be happy to mess around in a python shell, having a C# shell will probably play nicer with the rest of the companies infrastructure.
There are a few hedge funds that are quite happy to contribute open-source to the world. Blue Mountain Capital for example; https://github.com/BlueMountainCapital One of their projects is Deedle; an F#/C#-equivalent of the Python 'Pandas' data frame package. Which would in fact make a nice complement to CShell I imagine. Jane Street would be another choice: http://janestreet.github.io/ Their work on OCaml is currentl…
wow, didn't know that. thanks for putting together that list - maybe we should start a list somewhere where people can add, this is definitely super interesting.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#33Unity3D port anybody?
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#34This may be useful for loading GBs of data and it's quick exploration but I am wondering if there are any other uses for it besides that?
well it's as useful as any other REPL ;)
Though for things like Python the REPL serves for me mainly as a 'figure out what type this thing is here' and 'does this work'... things that static typing solve pretty well.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#35As much as i like C#, static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that. Powershell has access to the BCL and can do all that with a nicer syntax when using it in the shell.
It depends. I mostly use PowerShell when trying out things with .NET, sometimes before or while I'm implementing them in C# as well. But depending on what I want to do, LINQ is a very nice thing to have, even though PowerShell has similar capabilities with the pipeline. (Can't really point to anything specific right now – there are instances when I prefer PowerShell and those where I prefer LINQ.)
One major reason might be speed, though. PowerShell can be very slow on large-ish data sets. And var in C# saves you from a lot of type-typing.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#36Similar:
https://github.com/drew-r/maverick
Provides a Lua REPL with access to the .NET framework. Also allows you to run mini-apps made up of a combination of C# 'scripts' and Lua scripts.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#37As much as i like C#, static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that. Powershell has access to the BCL and can do all that with a nicer syntax when using it in the shell.
>static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that
I'm not sure I understand, what is wrong with dynamic in C#? You've got the anonymous types for quick data structures.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#38As much as i like C#, static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that. Powershell has access to the BCL and can do all that with a nicer syntax when using it in the shell.
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Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#39As much as i like C#, static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that. Powershell has access to the BCL and can do all that with a nicer syntax when using it in the shell.
Scala, OCaml/F#, and Haskell beg to differ.
Re: CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE
#40Also see http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProjectlessScriptedCWithScript... - no REPL though, although that would be easy to create since there's a SrciptingEngine for C# (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2011/12/02/introdu...)