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Pat Logan points to Jon Udell's article on the lack of dynamic languages - or even support for such - on dotNet. Seems to me MS is following the Sun path on this. Early talk about great things in the future, followed by complete inaction. That's too bad, because there are a whole lot of languages that are being pre-emptively "voted off the island" as a result. Patrick speculates:
MSFT deliberately de-emphasized dynamic languages approaching the first release of dotnet. But did they go so far as to paint themselves into some kind of a corner, maybe with an over-restrictive programming model?
Maybe there is no consensus, but *something* is wrong.
If I had to guess, I'd guess that it's just completely fallen off their radar....
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