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Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
You can't judge something's cultural/historical value or its eventual
impact by its immediate commercial success. Take Microsoft: please.
With services and device drivers writable in J*v*, and the next version
of C++ looking to add GC to go with the generic programming it's
recently had tacked on, it's plain that the bleating "mainstream" is
playing a slow game of catch-up with forty years of Lisp achievements.
And, no, I'm not a Lisp booster by trade.
- Rob.
China Black & Blue wrote:
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> / By 1980, the Lisp Machine OS was written entirely in Lisp.
> / And, by 1985, the Lisp Machine's front-end processor --
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> A real commercial success.
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Rob Myers - http://www.robmyers.org/ H2G2 - http://www.h2g2.com/
MacOS wonderfulness for The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game.
"Don't talk to sociologists. Social practice has no sociological
content." - Art & Language.
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