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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: Microsoft DLR and Lua?
From:       Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-06-30 15:53:06
Message-ID: 46867C62.8010804 () gmail ! com
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You have my official blessing, go-go-go.. :)

Erik Cassel wrote:
> 
> Has anybody been thinking about Microsoft’s DLR? It will be part of 
> Silverlight. Lua sounds like an excellent language for this kind of 
> thing. Imagine Flash on steroids with Lua in place of clunky ActionScript!
> 
> Apparently there are Python, JavaScript, Visual Basic and Ruby 
> implementations already built on top of DLR.
> 
> Of course, this might require a complete re-implementation of the 
> language. Also, Lua generally prides itself in being small, 
> self-contained, pure C, etc, etc. Still, I think it is intriguing…
> 
> Here are some links:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2007/04/30/a-dynamic-language-runtime-dlr.aspx
>  
> http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2012&pid=DEV02&disc=&id=1511&year=2007&search=DEV02 \
>  <http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2012&pid=DEV02&disc=&id=1511&year=2007&search=DEV02>
>  
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070430-microsoft-reveals-dynamic-language-runtime-for-net.html
>  
> Your thoughts?
> 
> -Erik Cassel
> 


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