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Re: A question

OK, I'll give you the closed, Smalltalk-centric  world.  What makes this
less of a choice than the closed, Dylan-centric world.

Thanks,

Steve

Gregory T. Sullivan <gregs@ai.mit.edu> wrote in message
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> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Guthrie <steve.guthrie@mantissa.com> writes:
>
>  Stephen> I recently began programming in Squeak (Smalltalk).  Give me a
reason to
>  Stephen> come back to Dylan.
>
> Plays well with others.
>
> The FO implementation of Dylan in particular takes great pains to
> produce well-behaved "native" app.s.  Both GD and FO Dylan have C
> FFI's.  FO Dylan also has mature interoperability features for Corba
> and OLE/COM/ActiveX.
>
> Squeak, and Smalltalk in general, is great, but, as far as I could
> tell when I last looked at it, tends to assume a mostly closed,
> Smalltalk-centric world.
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