From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-08-08T01:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ironpython (.net python) and dynamic langs on CLR

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:38:01 +0900, Daniel Cremer
<daniel@danielcremer.com> wrote:
> This might interest some of you :)
> A (fast) python implementation targeting .net and Mono has been released
> as open source today. Apparently this was announced at OSCON today. If
> anyone attended the talk I would be interested in hearing about it. I've
> been waiting for this for a while, not because I program in python but
> because it's supposed to have some good solutions for implementing
> dynamic languages on the CLR.
> Interestingly the author, Jim Hugunin, is going to join the CLR team at
> Microsoft and he (quote from website:) "will also reach out to other
> languages to help overcome any hurdles that are preventing them from
> targeting the CLR effectively."
> I haven't had the chance to play with this yet but it looks pretty cool.
> http://www.ironpython.com
> 

I was in the talk at OSCON.  It was very interesting.  The talk mostly
focused on the basics of his design (nothing at all revolutionary
there) and then went through a bunch of benchmarks, comparing Iron
Python to CPython.  Ultimately Iron Python was 4% slower (pretty
impressive!).

Jim's role in the CLR team specifically includes helping *dynamic*
languages get ported to the CLR.  Rich and I chatted with him
afterward, and I believe Rich sent him Robert Feldt's information
because of the RubySharp stuff Robert had been doing.

Chad