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February 4, 2008  10:54 AM

Lang.NET Day 3 considers, Ruby, Moonlight, Cobra



Posted by: YuvalShavit
Dynamic Languages, Silverlight

Ruby was first at bat on Day 3 of the Lang.NET in Redmond. Wayne Kelly and Jon Lam both presenting. Jon Lam’s IronRuby session was a status update on where the project stands, and how Lam’s Microsoft group intends to get to 1.0. He said his group has...

January 30, 2008  11:01 PM

Visual Basic futures, Volta on display at Lang.NET Symposium Day 2



Posted by: YuvalShavit
Dynamic Languages, Visual Basic

As the Microsoft Lang.NET Symposium went into Day 2, the parade of languages and language combos continued. First out of the blocks was Eric Meijer with a discussion of Volta. Volta uses a shared programming model to allow...


January 29, 2008  11:03 AM

Lang.NET shows Iron Python with Robotics Studio, JScript on DLR



Posted by: YuvalShavit
ASP.NET, C#, Dynamic Languages, Silverlight

Microsoft's Lang.NET Symposium 2008 got up and running yesterday. C# father Anders Hejlsberg talked about C# 3.0 features, IronPython guru Hugunin discussed the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and IronPython, and Pratap Lakshman from the...


January 8, 2008  5:54 PM

IronRuby and Ruby.NET, or A Tale of Two Rubies



Posted by: YuvalShavit
Dynamic Languages

A pretty simple question (''How does IronRuby differ from Ruby.NET?') turned into, naturally, a pretty complex chain of follow-up questions and then a series of conversations in the blogosphere. Ruby blogger Pat Eyler got the ball...


December 19, 2007  3:52 PM

Vick and Yuknewicz on VBX, meta programming and dynamic languages



Posted by: YuvalShavit
Dynamic Languages, Visual Basic

VB team members Paul Vick and Paul Yuknewicz appeared on a Scott Hanselman podcast to talk about directions for Visual Basic. They talked about the popularity of the language, which still surpasses all others in Microsoft’s yearly developer survey. Vick and Yuknewicz talked about


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