Python 2.5.1 and IronPython 1.1 released

I just learnt that on April 18th Python 2.5.1 was released, and that one day before IronPython 1.1 was also released, for (the very few of you) that don't know it, IronPython is an open source implementation of Python that runs natively on .NET Framework 2.0. The picture above (taken on Vista by SnagIt) shows an example written in IronPython of that childhood game: the sliding puzzle, in an interesting twist the image is downloaded dynamically from VirtualEarth. Python is popular in academia and for scientific research, so it's worth giving the language a look.