François Pinard emailed me that my posting of the link with no explanation appeared rude.
So here is a some information. -------------------------------------------------------- IronPython is a Python implementation targeting the .NET and Mono platforms from the same person who brought us Jython, Jim Hugunin. MS hired Jim since the first release (0.6) and this is the first and eagerly awaited release since then. Now if I hear something about the state of StarKiller, it would make my day complete :-). >From the release.... IronPython is the code name of the early pre-alpha preview release of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. The .NET Framework is a managed programming model for Windows; Microsoft standardized part of it in ECMA several years ago as the Common Language Infrastructure and C# Language Specification standards. IronPython is fast - up to 1.8x faster than Python-2.4 on the standard pystone benchmark. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers. IronPython 0.7 is a pre-alpha release. It is suitable for experimenting and playing with; however, a large amount of testing, packaging and library development remains to be done before a production-quality IronPython-1.0. We want to be sure to release IronPython in this early state in order to encourage feedback and discussion in the community of IronPython's features and designs as early as possible so that we can incorporate that into the 1.0 design. Also see Boo Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. http://boo.codehaus.org/ Python for .NET Python for .NET is a near-seamless integration of the Python runtime with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). It lets you script and build applications in Python, using CLR services and components written in any language that targets the CLR (C#, Managed C++, VB.NET, etc.). www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet James. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
