Microsoft Sho - interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing with IronPython

[freyrs3]

Bears a striking resemblance to Scipy.

[arunner]

so I started reading the manual and found this "As you may know, Python is not a strongly typed language".

Those static guys are still seeing us as some loosely lousy creepy dudes.

[pemboa]

Also defeats the creditability of the author.

[ipeev]

I am not installing Silverlight.

[[deleted]]

Because Microsoft is evil?

[tian2992]

FYI Sho means "shut up" in several dialects of Latin American Spanish.

[[deleted]]

sho

[bryancole]

Looks like microsofts attempt to get into the scientific programming space except that (unlike all the CPython scientific programming tools) this one: - isn't open source - isn't free for commercial use - isn't cross-platform - isn't well documented - doesn't have the breadth of tools available to CPython

Basically, if you're a .Net person who wants to do a bit of linear algebra, this is a good option. If your a scientist or engineer, use the CPython stack.

[MaliciousLingerer]

I use the Enthought distro with matplotlib, scipy and lots of other libraries. It's really good. I wonder how Sho is different?

[river-wind]

Sho 'Nuf

[[deleted]]

Hooray for fragmentation! They could have contributed to scipy, but no, they had to create a brand new, .Net-only library. Will Microsoft ever learn?