IronPython 1.0 is Born

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 6, 2006 @10:34AM from the metal-snakes dept.

dougblank writes "IronPython version 1.0 was just released after 3 years of development. Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython and the lead developer of the Shared Source IronPython, made the birth announcement earlier this week. From the announcement: 'I wanted to understand how Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse platform for dynamic languages than the JVM... I found that Python could run extremely well on the CLR — in many cases noticeably faster than the C-based implementation. [...] Shipping IronPython 1.0 isn't the end of the road, but rather the beginning. Not only will we continue to drive IronPython forward but we're also looking at the bigger picture to make all dynamic languages deeply integrated with the .NET platform and with technologies and products built on top of it. I'm excited about how far we've come, but even more excited by what the future holds!'"

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Faster than C? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-06 10:41 · Score: 0, Funny

Yeah, right. Let's quickly port the Linux kernel to python, and while we're at it every other cpu intensive app.
1. Re:Faster than C? by KDR_11k · 2006-09-07 07:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Doesn't "faster than c" violate a basic law of physics?
  
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Summary is confusing... by __aaclcg7560 · 2006-09-06 10:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Is Python being used to fix Microsoft's mistakes? Or did a python got run through the Iron Chef competition? Either way, does it taste like chicken?

Signed, IronConfused
OB Black Sabbath by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-06 10:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I AM IRON PYTHON<\DistortedVoice>

Duh, duh, duh duh duh.
Re:Link is unreadable! Jeez! by kwark · 2006-09-06 10:48 · Score: 4, Funny

And here I thought whitespaces were very very important to python.
Snakes... by Cameron+McCormack · 2006-09-06 10:57 · Score: 4, Funny

on a VM!
1. Re:Snakes... by Twisted64 · 2006-09-06 11:38 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I don't find that funny at all. As soon as this finishes posting, I'm going to mod you down.
  
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2. Re:Snakes... by Matt+Perry · 2006-09-06 12:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Bill Gates: "I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' VM!"
  
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3. Re:Snakes... by neuro.slug · 2006-09-06 13:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or even better.. shit, they have Ruby on Rails--we need Python on Planes (or Python on MUTHAFUCKIN' Planes)
Obligatory by lord_sarpedon · 2006-09-06 13:21 · Score: 2, Funny

Enough is enough! I have had it with these !@$&* IronPythons on this !%$~# CLR!

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Re:Or, if you're using Opera... by maop · 2006-09-06 13:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Try pressing that 10 times really fast in a dark room.
Re:Yes, but.... by gbjbaanb · 2006-09-07 00:11 · Score: 2, Funny

It [VB.NET] is not the spawn of evil you tried to present it either, though.

Yes, but VB programmers are :-)

oh, and C# programmers who think that they are the only ones who can write 'clean', maintainable, wonderfully object oriented code.