
When then-open-source developer Jim Hugunin said three years ago he was <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2009010,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL082806EOAD">developing a dynamic open-source language</A> to run on Microsoft's relatively new .Net platform, folks thought he was crazy. After all, ..Net and open source weren't supposed to go together. But now, everyone's doing it, and Hugunin works for Microsoft. Welcome to the world of dynamic programming, where everything from the languages to the players to the partnerships are anything but static. Dynamic languages are flexible languages that enable developers to write code quickly and easily.