On May 2, 8:22 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday Microsoft announced a new runtime for dynamic languages, > which they call "DLR". It sits on top of the conventional .NET runtime > (CLR) and provides services for dynamically typed languages like > Python or Lisp (thus the cross-posting). Apparently is is distributed > under a BSD-like open-source license. > > I am curious to know how it performs in comparison to CPython and an > efficient compiled Lisp like CMUCL. Speed is a major problem with > CPython but not with .NET or CMUCL, so it will be interesting to see > how the DLR performs in comparison. It would be great to finally see a > Python that runs on steroids, but knowing M$ bloatware my expectations > are not too high. > > Has anyone looked at the DLR yet? What are your impression? > > Jim Hugunin har written about the DLR in his blog: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/ > > To cite one of the comments: "Fuck this microsoft bollocks! You just > stole the Lisp runtime ideas and fucked them up by stupid it salesman > lingo." (Khrishna) > > Sturla Molden
If I looked at every crup they promote I would be braindead by now.Just look at the DataMining articles at Microsoft research. Piece of junk IMHO. Antoan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list