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Re: HARLEQUIN DYLAN and C FFI
I am a current Harlequin customer, and I am happy with the language,
but I can not seem to find help or references on how to use it with other
languages (examples like DX), maybe this is easy and I am just missing it. I
purchased Dylan hoping that I could do my higher level logic code in it,
layered on top of existing graphics and multimedia frameworks (DX, OpenGL,
FMOD etc. that are all written in C/C++). The current Dylan Team seems to
have gone into the ivory tower, sorry but I feel like I am one of six users
of this language, and I am a language NEWBIE I do not have a degree in CS, I
have a degree in Physics. :) I mean do you need to become an expert in C++
and COM in order to use them from within Dylan? I am using Dylan because I
did not want to use C++, or learn it :)
Thanks to Chris for his help !
Shawn
"Peter" <phXineXly@haXwaii.edXu> wrote in message
phXineXly-0302000846210001@usrns47.dialup.hawaii.edu">news:phXineXly-0302000846210001@usrns47.dialup.hawaii.edu...
> In article <V2iYOGFg4TflhfsQBi5pb6KvCcKy@4ax.com>, Jason Trenouth
> <jason@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:15:01 -0500 (EST), Brian Rogoff
<bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I was under the impression that Harlequin Dylan was no more and
that
> > > the rights were sold to Functional Objects, Inc. Could you expand on
your
> > > statement a little? The Dylan situation is confusing (as well as
tragic
> > > :-() and since the FO web site isn't very informative it isn't
surprising
> > > that people suspect the worst.
> >
> > What I meant was that Fun-O is now supporting what used to be Harlequin
Dylan
> > so there's no need to run off. Personally, I still work at Harlequin,
but I
> > help Fun-O in my spare time.
>
> I think that Scriptics (the company behind Tcl/Tk) has 40 people. If a
> language as bad and as blatantly cheesy as Tcl can survive, there is hope
> for Dylan.
>
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>
> Dylan... the high-performance dynamic language
> * open-source Unix version: http://www.gwydiondylan.org/
> * free Win32 version: http://www.functionalobjects.com
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