Jim Hugunin:

I'm very excited by the level of interest that I'm seeing from folks who want to better understand what the DLR is all about. I'm also sorry that we don't have a fully documented detailed story for you today. If you want a detailed whitepaper and documented APIs, you're going to have to wait a while. If you're happy with source code and blog entries, then you can start messing about today. And if you just want to play with working code, download the silverlight bits and start exploring what you can do on top of the DLR with Python and JavaScript together today.

I'm starting my design notes blogging today with my first entry on the dynamic type system that is one of the three key components in the DLR - and the one that I think is most important. The corner-stone of the DLR is support for a shared dynamic type system. This lets these dynamic languages easily and naturally talk to each other and share code. Equally important is that we want these dynamic languages to be able to work with the existing powerful static languages on the platform such as VB.NET and C#. We want to ensure that the huge wealth of both existing and to-be-written libraries designed for .NET all just work from dynamic languages.