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Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
As I've said before: in the same way that all operating systems want to be
UNIX, all programming languages want to be Lisp. This makes Dylan the MacOS
X or Gnome of the Lisp family. :-)
- Rob.
> From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
> Organization: Road Runner
> Newsgroups:
> comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.misc,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.software-eng
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 13:20:43 GMT
> Subject: Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
>
>
> Christopher Browne wrote in message ...
>
>> And actually, these days, languages with the EVAL function are getting
>> to be a dime a dozen, as the scripting languages like Perl and Python
>> that have grown quite popular also support introspection.
>
>
> Maybe by 2010, "mainstream" programming languages will catch
> up to c. 1965 Lisp. With any luck, by 2020, they'll manage to get
> to c. 1985 Lisp and SmallTalk.
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