Microsoft announces IronRuby

Dario Solera

C# is the most used language for Windows web applications, I guess. ABAP: :wtf: T-SQL: :wtf::wtf: Ruby: :| (I personally don't like it) D: :| (Never seen it) Ada: :wtf::wtf::wtf: Python: :mad: (I personally dislike it. WTF - indents for defining the program's flow??? One unwanted hit on the TAB key and you might waste hours of work!) FORTRAN: Still used in tons and tons of legacy applications, like COBOL - see banks and the like. Anyway. C#: :cool::cool::cool:

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NormDroid

Ok, I'll back plain english instead, plenty of jobs going out there;P

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NormDroid

Ah Dario, you seem to know where the money is, no good learning a language that don't pay eh?

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Nemanja Trifunovic

Marc Clifton wrote:

And what does all this mean to, well, me?

I thought you liked dynamic languages. Ruby is a ruby (yeah, I see the pun) among dynamic languages.

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Paul Conrad

Dario Solera wrote:

Ada: :wtf::wtf::wtf:

Exactly my thoughts. Was taught Ada in college like 15 years ago and it did little :->

Tom Welch

plus... you get to be "on rails". Trust me, you want to be "on rails". And to get the better of everyone else out there, your rails will be iron.

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Jim Crafton

Chris Losinger wrote:

enterprisation and solutionivity

Where's the Word of the Day award!!! LOL! :)

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Jim Crafton

OMG! The English language just rolled over and died! :)

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Roger Wright

The Grand Negus wrote:

Ada

That thing is still around? I thought it was buried alongside JOVIAL!

The Grand Negus wrote:

FORTRAN, holding it's own for over 50 years.

You had to mention that... my milk language. Egads, it's a wonder it got past punched cards. X|

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Marc Clifton

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

I thought you liked dynamic languages.

I do. I'm just leary when Microsoft takes over something, whether it's sanctioned or not. Marc

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Roger Wright

How could our very own avatar of Ruby fail to notice this announcement? Perhaps he's been kidnapped by aliens. Or beaten senseless by angry mobs of php coders. Or simply passed out in front of the pub again.

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peterchen

All your elite skills are outdated, and without IronRuby under your belt you are the old fart of the week.

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Marc Clifton

peterchen wrote:

All your elite skills are outdated, and without IronRuby under your belt you are the old fart of the week.

That's what I was afraid of. :sigh: ;P Marc

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Clickok

I'm still waiting for StainlessPython and StainlessRuby... :rolleyes:

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Kevin McFarlane

Remember that Microsoft needs to cover all bases. It's part of their paranoia. They always act as though they're about to go out of business.

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Kevin McFarlane

Roger Wright wrote:

That thing is still around? I thought it was buried alongside JOVIAL!

Saw a job requirement just the other day. Wanted Ada and C#.

Kevin

Kevin McFarlane

What about that other thing called IronRuby? http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx[^] Or has he agreed to call it something else now? Or has he given up?

Kevin

Clickok

Kevin McFarlane wrote:

Or has he agreed to call it something else now? Or has he given up?

Did you forget that Microsoft assimilates all that touches, like Brainiac[^]?

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El Corazon

The Grand Negus wrote:

I don't know...

I don't know... I thought last month you said all those were dead, C# had replaced them all and C# would eventually die, now you say they're back! Ada is dying, it has been since the military dropped the Ada mandate. However any large language support will have time to convert to others. I have an Ada compiler, which I am sure some statition somewhere counted as Ada on the upswing. But it is used for translating Ada into C++. I have a Fortran compiler for the same reasons, as well as some of our mathematical operations are still best done in Fortran. Fortran actually does have a strength, though that strength is finally starting to waver, not from any language but from CISC operations finally starting to compete at the chip level with Fortran mathematical optimizations. Fortran will never go away, it just has too many people doing it for too long. As with C++ there are still great reasons to continue using it. Since I have written papers on Translating out of Fortran and Ada, those googled once upon a time as a plus. The hard part of using google as a grade. If you write a page "I hate Fortran" you just gave Fortran a boost in this statistic, same with Ada, or Ruby. Every article disparaging any of those languages are automatically counted as positive numbers. If 10 million people wrote articles about how they hated PE, your compiler would instantly take top marks as the most popular language. I hope you can see how such searches do not mark language popularity well?

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Dario Solera

norm .net wrote:

Ah Dario, you seem to know where the money is, no good learning a language that don't pay eh?

I think it's more about time rather than money.

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