http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2001138,00.asp?kc=EWEWKEMNL081006WHN2
"Microsoft Phasing in Support for Dynamic Languages on .Net Microsoft is working on a phased approach to enhancing its support for dynamic languages on the company's .Net platform. ... Microsoft is taking measures to enhance its development platform's support for dynamic languages as developer demand for, and use of, the languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby and others continues to grow. Both Microsoft and Sun Microsystems-and the Java community-realize the growing need to support dynamic languages on their platforms. ..." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2001139,00.asp " ... instead of doing a dynamic language specification, provide a dynamic language library and have guidance on how to use it, ... whenever you can capture something in code instead of text it's a far better way to capture it ..." Lam said he believes a "reasonably large" percentage of all dynamic languages are fairly similar. " ... support for arbitrary length integer numbers is something that both Python and Ruby support," he said. "Yet those would be things that you would otherwise have to implement yourself." g. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
