Ruby Forum IronRuby > The story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight

Posted by Jimmy Schementi (Guest)
on 04.05.2008 10:30
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This is a really old thread from Michael on the IronPython Discussions 
list, but while looking through old mail I found it and realized no one 
ever directly replied to it. I read it over, and it made me realize 
something; we rarely talk about "why" things happen at Microsoft on the 
"outside" ... we just throw code over the wall and expect you to 
understand the "why" yourself. Granted, the IronPython/IronRuby team is 
much better at including you, but you all are still in the dark about 
why things are the way they are in Silverlight. Let me fix that ...

http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/05/story-of-ruby-and-python-in-silverlight.html

This is my story of taking dynamic languages from Silverlight 1.1 Alpha 
to Silverlight 2. Hopefully it clears up some confusion about why things 
are the way they are, why they're better off this way, and what we need 
to do to make it even better.

Enjoy, and please let me know what you think of the current state of 
Silverlight+Dynamic Languages in the comments.

~Jimmy