Talks

“IronPython and Dynamic Languages Runtime on .NET”

Located at DI FCT/UNL at the Seminar Room (Campus: Monte da Caparica)

Date/Time: 13/11/2007

Speaker: Mahesh Prakriya, Program Manager Lead DLR, Microsoft

From the beginning, Microsoft's .NET framework was designed to support a broad range of different programming languages on a Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR has good support for dynamic languages as IronPython 1.0 demonstrates it. The new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)  adds to the CLR a set of services designed specifically to meet the needs of dynamic languages. The DLR adds functionality such as a shared dynamic type system, a standard hosting model, and support to make it easy to generate fast dynamic code and fast symbol tables. With these additional features, it is much easier to build high-quality dynamic language implementations for .NET. Furthermore, these features enable dynamic languages built on the DLR to share libraries written in other dynamic languages or in CLR-based static languages. In this session we will show how IronPython leverages the DLR and how we can use IronPython in a range of situations.

Speaker: Mahesh Prakriya, Program Manager Lead DLR

http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython/