> As someone consistently upbeat about .NET and Mono (pronouced moe no, > not mah no), I share Jim's excitement for the future. Will this be > the last year I teach CPython for Saturday Academy? (I doubt it). > > Kirby > >>From Slashdot:
Blame me for the slashdot post. IronPython is an amazingly-true-to-Python implementation. They could have done many evil things (still could) but didn't. There are some issues, but, like Jim and Kirby, have high hopes: - the license is "shared source" but is very open and mostly free of constraints - there is no GUI that will work across Python implementations. A cool project would be to make a standard that would work in Jython, IronPython, and CPython - the Mono group is working on Windows Forms, even though that is not part of the .NET standard. If that is successful, this could be the common GUI - IronPython runs great on Mono I'm working on porting our Python Robotics and associated AI code to IronPython. I think .NET is going to be big in Linux. I hope Guido @ Google and Jim @ Microsoft continue to work towards such common good. -Doug > "IronPython version 1.0 was just released after 3 years of > development. Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython and the lead developer > of the Shared Source IronPython, made the birth announcement earlier > this week. From the announcement: 'I wanted to understand how > Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse > platform for dynamic languages than the JVM... I found that Python > could run extremely well on the CLR in many cases noticeably faster > than the C-based implementation. [...] Shipping IronPython 1.0 isn't > the end of the road, but rather the beginning. Not only will we > continue to drive IronPython forward but we're also looking at the > bigger picture to make all dynamic languages deeply integrated with > the .NET platform and with technologies and products built on top of > it. I'm excited about how far we've come, but even more excited by > what the future holds!'" > > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/2134234&from=rss > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
