- The CLR and Dynamic Languages<P>This <A href="http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=24878">article</A> is a summary of IronPython, an implementation of a dynamic language (Python) on the CLR. Basically it's been “common knowlege” that the CLR is not a good platform for dynamic languages (basically languages that make a lot of decisions at runtime instead of at compile time).</P>
<P>The discovery is that the CLR is actually a pretty good platform for a dynamic language.</P>
<P>This is good news since Monad (the new Microsoft Shell) has a scripting language that is (fairly simple) dynamic programming language, and knowing that we should be able to expect decent performance from those scripts is encouraging.</P>
<P>(Monad lets you execute statements like:</P>
<P> $o = new-myobject<BR> echo $o.Rows.Count</P>
<P>And this is executed much like VBScript in that there is no compiler.. it's at runtime that the runtime has to figure out if $o has a Rows property, and if that property has a Count, etc..)</P>
<P> </P>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:07 GMT