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dlr

First Irons in the Fire

Down­loaded from source and com­piled.
Iron­Ruby seems pretty self-contained (ie: all the Libs + gems) come along
Iron­Py­thon: I need to find out how to point it at my cPy­thon install
Can do simple .pyw to Iron­Py­thon­Windows, includ­ing a call to .NET Windows.Forms
Off we go!

LOLCODE on DLR. Download it now">LOLCODE on DLR. Download it now

John Lam announces that LOLCODE on the DLR is now avail­able.
INVISIBLE HAPPINESS

DLR Presentation">John Lam and Jim Hugunin: DLR Presentation

Microsoft’s John Lam and Jim Hugunin go large with the DLR at MIX07. Here are my notes whilst listen­ing and watch­ing the present­a­tion:
What to expect: a Mac, Text­Mate, Javas­cript, Python, Ruby, Safari and Sil­ver­light.  Text­Mate equals text edit­ing. Sil­ver­light is not bin­ary, its just XML and text. You can break it apart and look at the […]

DLR">More DLR

John Lam, why Dynamic Lan­guages from John Udell pod­cast:
express­ing my intent in the code.
Inter­est­ing inter­view between Tim Heuer and John Lam on Ruby as a part of the announce­ments yes­ter­day.
The Ruby sup­port from Microsoft is more than just Sil­ver­light; it also crosses into the server and the cli­ent, out­side the browser.
21st Cen­tury Small­Talk: Iron­Py­thon 2.0 in […]

DLR">Miguel de Icaza on DLR

Miguel de Icaza, lead of the Mono pro­ject (open­source CLR) on the new Dynamic Lan­guage Runtime:
Bin­ar­ies of the DLR were released today as part of Sil­ver­light 1.1, and the source code was included with Iron­Py­thon 2.0 (also released today).
The release for the DLR is done under the terms of the Microsoft Per­missive License (MsPL) which […]

By the light of Dynamic Silverlight

Keep­ing secrets is tough. Hear­ing about the Dynamic Lan­guage Runtime (DLR) from John Lam in Feb­ru­ary this year was one of those secrets that kept well.
John Udell inter­viewed John Lam, and has a back­grounder here. Some in the Ruby com­munity didn’t see this com­ing.
Jim Hugunin has a post­ing on the new DLR, open source nature of […]