Microsoft's Dynamic Languages Runtime (DLR)

[Fuzzyman]

On May 4, 11:28 pm, Paul Boddie <p... at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> Luis M. González wrote:
>
> > Indeed, the subject is absolutely on-topic.
> > If can't talk about a so called "Dynamic Languages Runtime" in a
> > pyhton mailing list, I wonder what it takes to be considered on-topic.
> > Frankly, this on-topic/off-topic fascism I see in this list is pissing
> > me off a little bit.
>
> It's less on-topic for comp.lang.lisp, though, unless you want to
> perform in a measuring competition with the Lisp crowd whilst hearing
> how they did the very same thing as <insert technology here> way back
> in the 1950s. Despite the permissive licences - it'd be hard to slap a
> bad EULA on IronPython now - the whole thing demonstrates Microsoft's
> disdain for open standards as usual,

How do you work that out? It seems like a very positive move from
them.

As for SilverLight, there will probably be a fully open implementation
by the end of the year.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml

> but it remains on-topic for
> comp.lang.python, I guess.
>
> Paul