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thkang
thkang

Reputation: 11533

IronPython, IronRuby, IronScheme, IronSomething

why some languages that targets .net platform has Iron- as a prefix? It seems like such convention only applies to non-microsoft developed languages.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 103

Answers (1)

Zdeslav Vojkovic
Zdeslav Vojkovic

Reputation: 14581

This is a convention for implementation of dynamic languages which run on CLR (actually DLR). IIRC, it is an acronym for 'I Run On .NET ...', so more or less a catchy name which turned into convention. I think it was IronPython which started it, but I am not 100% sure.

Upvotes: 3

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