Re: The Lambda Nature

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: The Lambda Nature
From: Rob Myers <robmyers@cwcom.net>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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> From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@igs.net>
> Organization: Bell Solutions
> Reply-To: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@ottawa.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.dylan
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:04:43 GMT
> Subject: Re: The Lambda Nature
> 
> Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in message
> MAhP4.37$_B6.737@burlma1-snr2">news:MAhP4.37$_B6.737@burlma1-snr2...
>> The success of Unix, Windows, and C/C++ rather than MacOS
>> and Lisp are examples of the "worse is better" philosophy.
> 
> MacOS isn't exactly an example to hold up as "better is better".  It's just
> as bogus as any other GUI API that I've seen.  (I haven't looked into BeOS'
> GUI stuff yet, so I'm holding out some hope of finding a clean, consistent,
> powerful GUI API.)

It's not bad for 1984...

MacOS X has modern APIs and a cool new look. d2c can generate "Carbon"
compatible code, so programming MacOSX in Dylan should be cool.

- Rob.

References:

Re: The Lambda Nature

From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)

Re: The Lambda Nature

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>

Re: The Lambda Nature

From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@igs.net>