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Interview: John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source

Posted by Werner Schuster on Nov 02, 2008

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Process & Practices,
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Ruby ,
.NET ,
Dynamic Languages ,
Community ,
Open Source ,
Rich Internet Apps ,
.NET Framework ,
Silverlight ,
Runtimes ,
Rich Client / Desktop
Tags
Rubinius ,
OSS ,
Microsoft ,
CLR ,
RubyFringe ,
RubySpec ,
Moonlight ,
DLR

In this interview filmed at RubyFringe, John Lam talks about:

  • Microsoft and Open Source
  • Silverlight and IronRuby
  • DLR
  • the path to IronRuby 1.0

Watch "John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source"

Great interview by Peter Andersen Posted
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    Great interview

    by Peter Andersen

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