Microsoft's Dynamic Languages Runtime (DLR)

[Luis M. González]

On May 4, 6:12 pm, Fuzzyman <fuzzy... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 4, 5:27 pm, Kaz Kylheku <kkylh... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 2, 5:19 pm, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
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> > > On May 3, 2:15 am, Kaz Kylheku <kkylh... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Kindly refrain from creating any more off-topic, cross-posted threads.
> > > > Thanks.
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> > > The only off-topic posting in this thread is your own (and now this
> > > one).
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> > You are making a very clumsy entrance into these newsgroups. So far
> > you have started two cross-posted threads. The first is only topical
> > in comp.lang.python (how to emulate macros in Python). This one is
> > topical in neither one, since it is about Microsoft DLR.
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> > It's quite possible that some Lisp and Python programmers have a
> > strong interest in Microsoft DLR. Those people who have such an
> > interest (regardless of whether they are Lisp and Python user also)
> > and who like to read Usenet will almost certainly find a Microsoft DLR
> > newsgroup for reading about and discussing Microsoft DLR. Do you not
> > agree?
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> Given that the DLR is a dynamic language framework, abstracted out of
> the IronPython 1.0 release, and that it also runs on top of the core
> CLR shipped with SilverLight meaning that for the first time sandboxed
> Python scripts can run in the browser...
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> It would seem entirely on topic for a Python newsgroup.... very on-
> topic...
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> Fuzzymanhttp://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml
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> > Also note that there is very rarely, if ever, any good reason for
> > starting a thread which is crossposted among comp.lang.* newsgroups,
> > even if the subject contains elements that are topical in all of them
> > (yours does not).
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> > > Begone.
>
> > You are childishly beckoning Usenet etiquette to be gone so that you
> > may do whatever you wish. But I trust that you will not, out of spite
> > for being rebuked, turn a few small mistakes into a persistent style.


Indeed, the subject is absolutely on-topic.
If can't talk about a so called "Dynamic Languages Runtime" in a
pyhton mailing list, I wonder what it takes to be considered on-topic.
Frankly, this on-topic/off-topic fascism I see in this list is pissing
me off a little bit.

I suggest reading this paragraph right from http://www.python.org/community/lists/:

"Pretty much anything Python-related is fair game for discussion, and
the group is even fairly tolerant of off-topic digressions; there have
been entertaining discussions of topics such as floating point, good
software design, and other programming languages such as Lisp and
Forth."

Luis