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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: IronRuby In Steel?
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Feed Description: Discussion of Ruby, Flex and the Ruby In Steel and Amethyst/Flex IDEs for Visual Studio.
So what's the big deal with these metallic names anyhow? I'd like to think that Microsoft chose the name IronRuby as a homage to Ruby In Steel. After all, forms an essential part of Steel, but Steel is stronger - yes, I like the sound of that...! ;-) A .NET Ruby compiler would certainly be a nice addition to have in our Visual Studio Ruby IDE - though, fear not, we have no plans to forsake the standard Ruby interpreter and/or virtual machine. In other words, Ruby In Steel will (...)
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