Microsoft lures Open Source programmer
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Jim Hugunin, the moving force behind IronPython and co-designer of AspectJ, is now a member of Redmond's Common Language Runtime team. Microsoft is continuing to grab top developer talent. The latest catch: Open source stalwart Jim Hugunin.
Hugunin created Jpython/Jython; codesigned the AspectJ aspect-oriented-programming language while working at the Xerox PARC research center; and is the moving force behind IronPython, the implementation of the Python language targeted at .Net and Mono.