Microsoft's Dynamic Languages Runtime (DLR)

[antoanjamison at hotmail.com]

On May 2, 8:22 pm, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
> On Monday Microsoft announced a new runtime for dynamic languages,
> which they call "DLR". It sits on top of the conventional .NET runtime
> (CLR)  and provides services for dynamically typed languages like
> Python or Lisp (thus the cross-posting). Apparently is is distributed
> under a BSD-like open-source license.
>
> I am curious to know how it performs in comparison to CPython and an
> efficient compiled Lisp like CMUCL. Speed is a major problem with
> CPython but not with .NET or CMUCL, so it will be interesting to see
> how the DLR performs in comparison. It would be great to finally see a
> Python that runs on steroids, but knowing M$ bloatware my expectations
> are not too high.
>
> Has anyone looked at the DLR yet? What are your impression?
>
> Jim Hugunin har written about the DLR in his blog:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/
>
> To cite one of the comments: "Fuck this microsoft bollocks! You just
> stole the Lisp runtime ideas and fucked them up by stupid it salesman
> lingo." (Khrishna)
>
> Sturla Molden

If I looked at every crup they  promote  I would be braindead by
now.Just look at the DataMining articles at Microsoft research. Piece
of junk IMHO.

Antoan