We are currently seeing Microsoft being more and more aware of Ruby and Ruby on Rails world. They’ve launched there own MVC framework and they are working on IronRuby.
Now a whitepaper on the future specs of C# has seen the light of day and I’m proud to say that Ruby is mentioned in line 4 (if you don’t count the introduction). They are implementing more dynamic structures in the language.
The following is a quote from the whitepaper. They are talking about “dynamic” objects:
“Some examples include
a) objects from dynamic programming languages, such as Python and Ruby”
I think this is a funny development of a compiled language. Ruby has excisted for 15 years but suddenly Microsoft finds it the source of great inspiration?!
When that is said the feature I’m currently looking most forward to in C# 4.0 is co- and contravariance. Now we can use generics for more than simple collections 
If you want to read the Microsoft whitepaper, you can get it here
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