From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T02:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft announces IronRuby

Guido wrote:
> On 2007-05-01 09:46:46 +0200, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> said:
> 
>> Do we know if that's the same as this?
>>
>> http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx
> 
> No, it is derived from RubyCLR by John Lam:
> <http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304541>

It's definitely not derived from RubyCLR, since that was just a bridge 
to the C implementation of Ruby (MRI) and this is a CLR-native 
implementation.

I'll bet anyone a beer it's all new code, unrelated to Wilco's IronRuby 
and John's RubyCLR (and even Queensland University's Ruby.NET).

- Charlie