Super-Fast Python Implementation for .NET and Mono

Lansdowne writes "Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython, has released an incredibly fast implementation of Python for Microsoft .NET and Mono called IronPython. Here's his PyCON 2004 presentation, including some benchmarks. He concludes: 'Python is an extremely dynamic language and this offers compelling evidence that other dynamic languages should be able to run well on this platform.'"

Perhaps he should have waited...

[clintp]

Maybe he could have gotten in on the Great Parrot/Python Pie-a-Thon [sidhe.org]. Perhaps an opportunity to plaster both Guido and Dan with a cream pie...

Well, that's great and all

[Anonymous Coward]

But Python really hold a candle to PHP or Perl. A language without dollar signs is a day without sunshine.

Sorry to break it to you.

What I want to know is...

[WTFmonkey]

Is is "IronPython," the way we'd usually pronounce it, or do we put a little Rocky Balboa in it and call it the "I- ron Py- thon ?"