IronPython - the Microsoft sponsored .NET version of Python - is almost ready for primetime as the first beta of the 1.0 release comes out. There are too many languages on my language todo-list to make it realistic that I'll be spending serious time on IronPython - but since we're using .NET (just not quite yet in my little core group of 3 people) I've gotta like the ability to whip up stuff using a proper open language.