Are the C programming language and its object-oriented offspring - C++, C#, Objective-C - still well-suited to the requirements of multithreaded, network-oriented computing environments today? That's the question on the minds of engineers at Microsoft Research, whose latest programming language is today being officially moved off the back burner. The F# language has received the company's official blessing.
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"Wrong, or missleading, at least.
IronPython, or IronRuby should have their own support and traceability. Mono, or Silverlight can be able to process IronPython code, just because of the produced intermediated code, but IronPython is not the target there!
Is the same as implying than JRuby or Jython are successfull because any JVM can execute them."
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Silverlight 1.1 (and Moonlight 1.1) can run "produced intermediated code" for any .NET language, including IronPyton, but is able to run textual code for IronPython, IronRuby, JScript, and VBx.
See:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/index.shtml
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/introduction.sht...
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/silverlight_appl...
If you're still not convinced, watch this presentation by IronPyton lead Jim Hugunin and IronRuby lead Jon Lam:
http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2012&pi...
(I don't know if Silverlight compiles IronPython text code on the fly before running it, but the point is that Silverlight has special support for IronPython (and IronRuby, VBx, JScript, XAML), such that a website's silverlight applet can consist of .py files (among other files).)
Also, according to the above links:
"Visual Studio 2005 (as a language integration example)
Visual Studio 2008 (expression evaluator and WPF designer examples)
ASP.NET
The XNA game design framework
Microsoft Robotics Kit
Project Jasper (a declarative database project specifically fro VB and IronPython)"
So Microsoft is indeed using IronPython. It's not just a showpiece as you and someone else seem to be saying.
"Besides, which is the current real support for Mono?"
IronPython runs on Mono, as is well known. I'm not sure what point your trying to make here. Are you asking Microsoft to provide official customer support for Mono? That won't happen. But they do provide official Moonlight support for the devs that are implementing Moonlight (and Moonlight 1.1 runs on Mono).
Edited 2007-10-24 05:52
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2007-09-24
Wrong, or missleading, at least.
IronPython, or IronRuby should have their own support and traceability. Mono, or Silverlight can be able to process IronPython code, just because of the produced intermediated code, but IronPython is not the target there!
Is the same as implying than JRuby or Jython are successfull because any JVM can execute them.
Besides, which is the current real support for Mono?