BOO Vs IronPython

Question

What is the difference between IronPython and BOO? Is there a need for 2 Python-like languages?

Answer 1

In a nutshell, Boo's claim to fame is that it is supposed to give you most of the benefits of Python's elegant, terse syntax and very high-level abstractions, but without sacrificing (most) of the speed advantages of a statically typed language like C#.