And now a .NET Ruby implementation (may be)

After blogging about dynamic languages here and here, I had every intention of *not* talking about it for a while (I wouldn't wan't to be confused with an alternative languages junkie -something actually I am- as most of the time I do LOB applications), but then here I find a reference to this blog which finally takes me to this page (don't you just love the Web redundance?): a project to implement a managed version of Ruby nothing less! Although it is in very early stages, if it comes through it will prove wrong what many Java developers said to me about the .NET Framework CLR: that it was anything but "common language", that C# and Visual Basic .NET were just "skins" on pretty much the same thing (well, may be they've got a point here), and that every other .NET language implementation was doomed to be pretty much the same. Well, if IronPython was not enough proof, the Ruby.NET project -when and if it flies- would prove all that naysayers wrong.