That Microsoft was going to increase support for dynamic languages is no surprise: they've been talking about that since (at least) PDC '03 and various hires and initiatives have clearly been in the works. I haven't seen the DLR yet, but my big question is: what version / runtime / patch level …

Ozzie compared Google's position to Sony's position with the PS2 a few years ago. But doesn't that make IBM Nintendo?

Scott Guthrie just announced IronRuby! Yeehaw!!!!!!

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Silverlight binding; demoing on Mac

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Dynamic Language Runtime announced

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"Shipping later this week" (I'm sure he means shipping a beta / CTP)

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Uses Ruby naming scheme when programming .NET libraries (weird. Not sure I like that.)

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"Switch the console into Python mode, Ruby mode, VB …

Voyager is moving at \~17KPS ... divided into 300,000 KPS ... multiplied by 3600 * 24 * 365.25 ... multiplied by 20. \~370,000 years to reach Gliese. To me, a 200-year mission is about what I could imagine our civilization buying into. No way gravity assist can scale; I don't think solar …

Just back from a 4-day mini-vacation in Kauai, hiker's paradise (well, if your idea of paradise is a hike in the rain to the world's highest swamp along knife-edge ridges with 3,000' drops...) Looks like I missed lots of interesting goings-on and Mix is going to generate tons of …

Michael Suess's fantastic series of brief interviews with concurrence gurus concludes with Microsoft's Joe Duffy (whose own blog is must-reading for performance-oriented windows developers">)contains the intriquing quote in the title. I smell CLR support!

Jonathan Edwards has a great piece of speculation.  Man, if John Lam has produced a native CLR Ruby (maybe based on the IronPython codebase) in 8 months, he'd be the run-away winner of this year's He-Man Programming Award.

Please, feel free to laugh at this column describing how I was completely pwned by hackers trading the German dub of 'Norbit'...

This object, which is of uniform density, is self-righting. It has a second balance point that is "unstable"/highly susceptible to perturbation (when I first read the article I thought it said it didn't have such a point, which freaked me out). I love mathematical objects that are complex and …

Benoit Lavigne wonders if ageism is a problem in the software development profession. Oh, hell yeah. From the minute I began editing software development magazines (when I was 25) I began hearing from professionals in their 40s and higher who faced disproportionate difficulty getting work. There is not a question …