Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jan 11 18:21:43 CST 2013
Why did Microsoft pull their support, I wonder? Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 11 Jan 2013, at 14:43, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > I do not strictly follow IronPython and IronRuby and I do not have them currently installed with Visual Studio: > > - IronPython seems to be evolving as open source project ( http://ironpython.net/ ) as well as IronRuby ( http://ironruby.net/ ) but the latter one seems to be "frozen" since summer 2011. > > Here is an interesting 'farewell note' from one of IronPython developers - http://hugunin.net/microsoft_farewell.html - who has left MS for Google AFAIU.... > > -- Shamil > > Пятница, 11 января 2013, 13:31 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: >> >> >> It's a bit disconcerting though that IronRuby hasn't had a stable release in 2 years and that Microsoft abandoned their support of both IronPython and IronRuby in 2010. >> >> Whats going on there? >> >> - Hans >> >> >> >> On 2013-01-11, at 12:18 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote: >> >>> Hi Hans -- >>> >>> Yes, iPhone/iPad development can be done using MonoTouch as it follows from the books (I have no own experience with MonoTouch) - here is one of the books: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-iPhone-Programming-with-MonoTouch-and-NET-C-.productCd-047063782X.html . There quite some others if you look at Amazon, e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MonoTouch-Hands-Building-Applications/dp/0321719921 ... >>> >>> And Python is available for Visual Studio as IronPython - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython - it should be good enough to start with when time will allow. >>> >>> There exists also IronRuby - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronRuby ... >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> -- Shamil >>> >>> >>> Пятница, 11 января 2013, 11:16 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com >: >>>> Hi Shamil, >>>> >>>>> Python is on my "long waiting list" - do you use Python in your everyday web development there? >>>> >>>> Not currently, but I did use Python and Django for a bit recently. I quite liked it and the syntactic sugar as great, but you just have to be aware of these things or else it just looks like magic at first. >>>> >>>> I highly recommend you move Python up your waiting list, because it will benefit you in many ways, not the least that Python is cross platform. >>>> >>>>> I must note my intention in posting the subject news wasn't to post "bullet-/punch-holes- proof" Microsoft and Nokia's-MS-tied technologies' information - you can find that the last news is on probable Nokia's adaptation of Android. >>>> >>>> Fair enough. I thought you were posting a 'current state of Windows 8 / Phone 8' (of which I'm sceptical, as you can tell). >>>> >>>>> the move to Android (using MonoDroid) and iPhone (MonoTouch) promise to be natural as I have read from some of the tech. books. Of course it would be better to use native Android and iPhone dev. tools but that would be the next step. >>>> >>>> So, Apple is now allowing applications built in MonoTouch? Interesting. Didn't realise this was happening. >>>> >>>> >>>> - Hans >>>> >>>> <<< skipped >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com