Why are many ports of languages to .net prefixed with 'Iron'?

Posted by MPritch on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by MPritch
Published on 2009-07-28T14:03:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 22:41 UTC
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Was discussing over lunch why several ports of languages to the .net framework are prefixed with 'Iron'.

e.g.

  • IronPython
  • IronRuby
  • IronLisp
  • IronScheme
  • IronPHP

Anyone out there know?

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