[JeffreySnover]

We thought about that but the reality is that it does not work well for interactive experiences.

When you look at how admins get their job done, it starts in the interactive shell and then when the do things frequently, they put it into a simple script and when then need it to be more formal, they invest in making it production quality.

That is the flow that PowerShell was designed to support.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

[figgis]

Could you just allow interaction with objects in a shell while just using c#? There are interactive c# interpreters that already do great.

[mattmanser]

I still feel it was a massive waste, the millions of programmers who could be using scripting C# right now, it would have been awesome.