State of alternative languages on the CLR?

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Published Saturday, May 08, 2004 12:40 AM by RoyOsherove
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Friday, May 07, 2004 11:37 PM by ms

# re: State of alternative languages on the CLR?

Not know the diff between perl and smalltalk ?
Saturday, May 08, 2004 9:02 AM by JosephCooney

# re: State of alternative languages on the CLR?

I would love to get a closer look at ironpython, however as far as I know it is currently an unreleased research prototype.
Monday, May 10, 2004 9:03 PM by Mike Gale

# re: State of alternative languages on the CLR?

There was a lot of promise in the early .NET days. Seemed we were going to get a lot of languages:
APL
Forth
Perl
Python
Eiffel
Mondrian
Some ML language (F something?)
Haskell
X#
S# + 1 other Smalltalk
...

A lot of this is research prototypes and I get the feeling that launching and supporting an industrial strength language (that lasts) takes a lot of resources. Even MS gives fairly low resources to JScript.NET.

I'm not using but I guess that Eiffel and Dyalog APL have their followers. (X# is, I believe, being subsumed into the CLR.)