10 August, 2006

Boo!

No, seriously. I've just found out about a programming language called Boo, which is basically a language with Python-like syntax that runs on top of the Common Language Infrastructure (more commonly known as .NET or Mono). You could think of it as Python.NET.

Even better, there's a very high-quality open source IDE called #Develop (SharpDevelop) which provides full visual form design and class/code generation for Boo (and C-Sharp.NET, VC++.NET and others) which means that in effect there's now a Visual Python.NET. All the goodness of a PPR (Python / Perl / Ruby) programming language combined with the excellent API provided for by .NET. I'm very impressed indeed.

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