IronPython 1.0 is Born

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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I call myself out

[Ana10g]

I'm out.
My apologies for making a trollish post. I was in a pissy mood earlier, firing from the hip, and should have thought my words more carefully. I completely agree with you, actually, regarding your point to the following:

very few people in this world are cut out to be programmers. For some people it's almost natural thing. For others it is a latent talent that can be trained. But most people, regardless of their intelligence, dilligence and personal virtue, could only be trained to the level of mediocrity, at least with the ways we know how to teach.

A lot of people I went to school with couldn't get it. It may have been that the people who didn't get it were the ones that I met in the Information Systems classes (which, where I went to school, was a concentration on a Business Major, where they taught VB as the intro language) were those that were not cut out to be programmers in the first place, thus affecting my perception of languages causing dain bramage.

Anyway, I still don't like VB, but, at least you made me consider my words and thought processes. Apologies to the community at large for being a dick.