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Dynamic languages and the CLR

Interesting thread on the Mono development list which looks at the pros and cons of the CLR and its support for dynamic languages. They go-on to look at the approach that the Parrrot VM is taking, how it differs from the CLR and why its approach is good and bad (I wonder what Dan will have to say about this ?). Lastly there is some input from some of the Project 7 members and Microsoft folks (Don Syme of Gyro fame).
Posted: May 14 2003, 12:35 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)

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Dan said:

I'm probably not going to respond directly to the dynamic language stuff in that thread--I don't know enough about .NET to really argue the details on my side, and Miguel pretty obviously doesn't know enough about the performance characteristics and implications of dynamic languages to argue on his.

All I can say is that of the very few attempts I know of, they're either really slow (python) or require machine-code hacks to .NET (S# which, BTW, nobody public's actually played with, though I have seen Dave give demos).
# May 14, 2003 1:29 AM