- find a different language to use
        - requirements
            - any .NET language:        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
            - should be interpretted
        - possibilities
            - VB.NET        -- widely used. However, it doesn't support 'eval' and is not based on the Dynamic Language Runtime.  Also, I 
            - F#
            - IronPython    -- does work okay on Mono (see the FePy branch)
                        http://fepy.sourceforge.net/doc/ironpython-mono-report.html
            - IronRuby


- get a small example working on C#, just to prove it works outside of the scripting language, ie. to show that threadign is okay