Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The reason why dynamic languages ported to the .NET CLR have Iron in their name http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The reason why dynamic languages ported to the .NET CLR have Iron in their name http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sun, 19 May 2013 20:09:19 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 20:09:19 GMT Rev9 6 -6 -1 Coffeehouse - The reason why dynamic languages ported to the .NET CLR have Iron in their name This is just my educated guess but I believe I'm right for this explanation.

Charles even asked during one interview on C9 called Jimmy Schementi: Inside IronRuby so here's my answer: 

The CLR is a staticly typed runtime, which is also known as being "strongly typed".  Ruby and Python are Dynamic languages which are primarily typeless.  SO for the dev's making their .NET implementation wanted another way to say or prefix the Languages names with a "Strong" metaphor.  What better to depict strength other than Iron??

So I believe that naming a dynamic language ported to a strongly typed .NET CLR is called Iron* specifically for that reason, thus the name IronPython and IronRuby were born.

 

Any thoughts ?? Smiley


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PerfectPhase said:

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL10/     Jump to 13:55   

 

Nice find.  Implementation Running On dot Net.

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PerfectPhase said:

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lol, but he didn't actually say whether or not it was an after the fact thing he noticed or was brought attention to.  Other than that he was just noting a few enterprise/industrial strength selling points about what Iron meant to him personally for the presentation.

 

I still believe that Iron is a way to prefix a dynamicly typed language on a strongly typed runtime. Wink

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HeavensRevenge said:
PerfectPhase said:
*snip*

lol, but he didn't actually say whether or not it was an after the fact thing he noticed or was brought attention to.  Other than that he was just noting a few enterprise/industrial strength selling points about what Iron meant to him personally for the presentation.

 

I still believe that Iron is a way to prefix a dynamicly typed language on a strongly typed runtime. Wink

I think the closest you'll ever get to a real answer was the hint at Iron Chef, there doesn’t always have to be a good reason for a name and once a precedent is started... Smiley

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