State of alternative languages on the CLR?

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• Not know the diff between perl and smalltalk ?
  

• I would love to get a closer look at ironpython, however as far as I know it is currently an unreleased research prototype.
  

• There was a lot of promise in the early .NET days. Seemed we were going to get a lot of languages:
  
  APL
  
  Forth
  
  Perl
  
  Python
  
  Eiffel
  
  Mondrian
  
  Some ML language (F something?)
  
  Haskell
  
  X#
  
  S# + 1 other Smalltalk
  
  ...
  
  
  
  A lot of this is research prototypes and I get the feeling that launching and supporting an industrial strength language (that lasts) takes a lot of resources. Even MS gives fairly low resources to JScript.NET.
  
  
  
  I'm not using but I guess that Eiffel and Dyalog APL have their followers. (X# is, I believe, being subsumed into the CLR.)