Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...

And ditto with its complement, IronPython. IronRuby and IronPython, until November 1, are Microsoft-supported and .Net-targeted versions of the Ruby and Python dynamic programming languages.

Considering that IronPython started out as a test to see if Microsoft could run a dynamic programming language on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), the Python port has managed to ...

The shipment of IronPython 1.0 this week marks a milestone for the long-running project, aimed at developing a Python implementation on Microsoft's .Net platform, and for developers' goal of ...

The release of IronPython will add a scripting language to Microsoft's tools arsenal. Scripting, or dynamic, programming languages are rising in popularity with developers . The development tools ...

Microsoft is moving two of its development languages -- IronPython and IronRuby -- as well as the company's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to an Apache open-source license, company officials ...