Presentation on IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) by Andre John Cruz at the Community Technology Update 2009 event in Singapore, 19 December 2009

1. IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) Andre John Cruz19 December 2009

2. What’s IronRuby?

4. Can change at runtime

6. IronRuby Console and Ruby Syntax From the command line demo

8. Unified runtime

10. Why? Why use a dynamic language? http://www.flickr.com/photos/petereed/496392956/

11. Scripting App Sample Jimmy Schementi’sRubyConf 2009 Demo demo

12. Downsides No Visual Studio IDE Integration No LINQ, .NET attribute support Lacking integration with .NET app frameworks Performance hit

13. Future Directions Visual Studio IDE Integration LINQ, .NET attribute support Integration with .NET app frameworks Performance improvements

14. Additional Resources Official Sites http://www.ironruby.net http://www.ironruby.info http://ironruby.codeplex.com http://www.ruby-lang.org Blogs http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com http://www.flanders.co.nz http://devpinoy.org/blogs/cruizer

15. The Definitive Sites for your Developer and IT Resources TechNet Singapore MSDN Singapore www.microsoft.com/singapore/technet www.microsoft.com/singapore/msdn

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