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<P>Ok, I'm depressed... MSDN Flash news today reported that IronPython 1.0 for .NET is now ready to try as release candidate.</P>
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<P>I have about as much interest in programming in python as I do for house-training a feral skunk.</P>
<P>Has anyone heard of any similar effort for the perl language? I would dearly love to program in Perl.NET, if there was such a thing.</P>
<P>I hate that ActiveState seems to have cornered the market on perl implementations for the Windows world. They made a very, very weak attempt at porting to .NET; really it seems all you get is code colorization from them… They haven't followed up in on .NET and creating a full language spec that ineracts with the CLI the way others (like python) have.</P>
<P>It seems like no one in the public/gnu domain (that I'm aware of, anyway) has much interest in pushing perl in the application development direction for this platform. Are we perl programmers becoming anacronisms? Will perl end up being just another language swept under the rug of history, along with awk and ksh? Say it ain't so…</P>
<P>Does anyone on this list besides me have any interest in this? I'd love some feedback...</P></FONT><FONT size=2>
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