[GauntletWizard]

Powershell seemed like a great advance upon cmd, until I realized it was a great step backwards from Python. It's an objectful interpreted scripting language, but suffers from poor namespacing, verbosity, and some fairly insane defaults.

Meanwhile, IPython as a shell[1] has been around for years. I do mostly python scripting, and spend much of my day at an ipython shell. I don't personally use it as a general purpose shell, but it is perfectly acceptable for many problems that I use if for.

[1]http://ipython.readthedocs.org/en/stable/interactive/shell.h...