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Re: A question
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:00:03 -0500 (EST), "Stephen J. Guthrie"
<steve.guthrie@mantissa.com> wrote:
> Look, jt, I want to see where Dylan applications are being applied and used.
> I'm not interested in plonking down my hard-earned money, especially after
> plonking it down to Harlequin once before, to buy a language that is not
> used. You call my comments vacuous? I conceed the point. Your trivialize
> my experience? That is your perogative.
>
> Now, answer the question - in what way is Dylan used outside the realm of
> "hobby pursuit?"
Hi Stephen,
One of the largest Dylan projects is Fun-Dev itself. It is 99% implemented in
Dylan including the compiler, the runtime, the libraries, the IDE, DUIM (GUI
toolkit), CORBA ORB, etc. Moreover these components use each other. E.g. The
IDE is built using DUIM, and the remote debugging currently runs over CORBA.
If you want evidence that Dylan and its libraries can scale to large projects
then Fun-Dev itself constitutes such evidence.
Of course, this doesn't help if you are looking for use-cases for evidence of
popularity rather than ability.
__Jason
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