From: "John Lam (CLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T14:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Klitzke [mailto:evan@yelp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:49 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: IronRuby
>
> I can't really speak to the IronRuby situation, but I have been keeping
> track of the progress Microsoft has been making with IronPython, and so
> far that has been a good project. In particular, the IronPython folks
> make it a big priority to make IronPython 100% faithful to the Python
> language description (IIRC they even run the mainstream CPython
> regression tests).

The folks who created IronPython are on my team as well. FWIW they were treated with skepticism at start but eventually earned the respect of the community. We're in the same boat - we need to earn your respect by doing the right things as well. And we fully expect the community to call us on our mistakes.

-John