Udell Interviews Lam on DLR, Silverlight, IronRuby
I'll be listening to this podcast ASAP.
more ...I'll be listening to this podcast ASAP.
more ...Charles Petzold and Jeff Atwood have gotten in a bit of a kerfluffle that, I think, is an unfortunate example of how online writing can escalate and over-dramatize disagreements between even two talented writers. I'm sure that Atwood appreciates Petzold's work and I'm sure that Petzold appreciates constructive criticism. I'm …
more ...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 …
more ...Ozzie compared Google's position to Sony's position with the PS2 a few years ago. But doesn't that make IBM Nintendo?
more ...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 …
more ...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!
more ...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.
more ...Please, feel free to laugh at this column describing how I was completely pwned by hackers trading the German dub of 'Norbit'...
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