IronPython and Dynamic Languages Runtime on .NET November 13, 2007

Presentation by Mahesh Prakriya, Program Manager Lead DLR, Microsoft

" From the beginning, Microsoft's .NET framework was designed to support
a broad range of different programming languages on a Common Language
Runtime (CLR). The CLR has good support for dynamic languages as
IronPython 1.0 demonstrates it.The new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)
adds to the CLR a set of services designed specifically to meet the
needs of dynamic languages. The DLR adds functionality such as a
shared dynamic type system, a standard hosting model, and support to
make it easy to generate fast dynamic code and fast symbol tables.
With these additional features, it is much easier to build
high-quality dynamic language implementations for .NET. Furthermore,
these features enable dynamic languages built on the DLR to share
libraries written in other dynamic languages or in CLR-based static
languages. In this session we will show how IronPython leverages the
DLR and how we can use IronPython in a range of situations."
http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython/

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