After having read about the “Da Vinci Machine”, http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/davinci-machine_1.html http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ it struck me that Sun/the Java people have finally seen the wisdom of supporting other languages (esp. dynamic ones) on the JVM and have decided to play catch up with the CLR. The closest CLR analog to the Da Vinci Machine would be .NET’s DLR [...]