# Microsoft Phasing in Support for Dynamic Languages on .Net

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/microsoft-phasing-in-support-for-dynamic-languages-on-net/64776>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/microsoft-phasing-in-support-for-dynamic-languages-on-net/64776 "2006-08-15T14:18:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/microsoft-phasing-in-support-for-dynamic-languages-on-net/64776/1 "2006-08-15T14:18:48Z")

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Microsoft is working behind the scenes to enhance the support of .Net  
for dynamic programming languages…looking at leveraging some of the  
simplicity that Basic has. “That feels a lot like what people say they  
love today about dynamic languages,” he said. “People say they love a  
language like Ruby because it has this simplicity and this dynamism.”  
[http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2001138,00.asp](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2001138,00.asp)