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                              Polyglut redux redux
                                        
> The CLR (Common Language Runtime) has good support for dynamic languages
> today. IronPython-1.0 demonstrates this. The new Dynamic Language Runtime
> (DLR (Dynamic Langauge Runtime)) adds a small set of key features to the
> CLR to make it dramatically better. It adds to the platform a set of
> services designed explicitly for the needs of dynamic languages. These
> include a shared dynamic type system, standard hosting model and support to
> make it easy to generate fast dynamic code. With these additional features
> it becomes dramatically easier to build high quality dynamic language
> implementations on .NET. More importantly, these features enable all of the
> dynamic languages which use the DLR to freely share code with other dynamic
> languages as well as with the existing powerful static languages on the
> platform such as VB.NET and C#.
> 

Via Lemon Odor [1], “Dynamic Languages on .NET—IronPython and Beyond [2]”

(This post is in reference to “Polyglut [3]” and “Polyglut redux [4]”). My
only comment to this news is, “How long will Microsoft hype this, and when
will they then pull the rug out from everybody?”

I only mention this because of MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class Library) [5],
OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) [6], COM (Component Object Model) [7] and
DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) [8], just a few of the heavily
hyped but long since dropped and unsupported technologies Microsoft developed
over the years.

[1] http://lemonodor.com/archives/001503.html
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2007/04/30/a-dynamic-language-runtime-dlr.aspx
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/04/24.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/04/25.1
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Library
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_object_model
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_Model

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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