Arg!
It is with great disappointment to hear that MS seems to no longer support the further development of the Iron languages. While Powershell has its place from an admin standpoint, there is still a need for dynamic scripted languages on the .NET platform to support application extensibility. In fact there are probably a large class of applications that should be written in dynamically typed scripted languages, but are not. Much of this is because of the ignorance of the MS developer community that are stuck in the world of 'statically typed minds'. By supporting the DLR, IronPython and other DLR languages, MS could help educate software developers in the large and take a leadership role in driving innovation in software such as the OpenSource world has. Disappointing.