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At the risk of being like a gossip magazine, I'd like to share a few thoughts about Microsoft and dynamic languages.
Erik Meijer has been pushing VB9 as a great dynamic language for quite some time.
Microsoft released IronPython a few weeks ago. There's been hardly any commotion about it, not even from MS itself. I'm very surprised about this since I consider it to be one of the
most interesting releases from them for quite some time. Or is it that I'm just not listening hard enough?
Microsoft has recently hired John Lam and is up to something in (or close to) the Ruby-arena,
I guess. (I have other reasons to believe this as well, but let's not get into that right now.)
Oh, BTW, Sun recently hired the JRuby-guys...
Does all this imply that dynamic languages and/or Ruby will be mainstream "soon" or what? Time will tell.
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