From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T04:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft brings Ruby to the browser?

ljmorsillo@yahoo.com wrote:
> There is more meat to this now that MIX07 has concluded.
> 
> There will be the Dynamic Language Runtime which extends the CLR.
> 
>>From Miguel De Icaza (http://tirania.org/blog/)
> Binaries of the DLR were released as part of Silverlight 1.1, and the
> source code was included with IronPython 2.0 (also released today).
> 
> The release for the DLR is done under the terms of the Microsoft
> Permissive License (MsPL) which is by all means an open source
> license. This means that we can use and distribute the DLR as part of
> Mono without having to build it from scratch. A brilliant move by
> Microsoft.

Can someone confirm (or not) that this means one can write Ruby code, 
compile it to DLR, and run it on Mono?

I.e., I can write and deploy Ruby.net code all on my Linux boxen?

That would be super bad.

-- 
James Britt

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