Does IronPython indicate MS interest in dynamic languages?

[Mike Rovner]

Thomas Gagne wrote:
> Assuming (I don't know for certain) that MS's PR approves all messages 
> that leave the building, I'm wondering if this foray into dynamic 
> languages doesn't signal something greater on MS' part.  While Sun and 
> Java (and C# for the most part) have remained statically-typed, do you 
> think IronPython might indicate a new direction for MS language 
> development?

Sun abandoned dynamic approach (Tcl) in favor of Java.
MS using dynamic for a long long time (recall prolog in NT loader).
So it's new step with .NET and prove that Python (as well as VBscript) 
will work well on it in is in best MS (read commercial) interests.

/m