CLR 4.0: Dynamic Languages Support

As more and more dynamic languages start to show up in the .net world like IronPython, IronRuby, and F# the need for some changes in the CLR and the BCL to natively support those languages become important. But what’s really beautiful about CLR is it’s well designed framework, and eventually Microsoft discovered that the changes they need to make is not that much, Jim Hugunin built a Full Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) on top of the CLR and he didn’t ask them for a lot of changes. Some of the Changes in CLR 4.0 in order to support Functional and Dynamic Languages are: 1. BigIntegers 2. Tuples