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Re: Status of unix port of Functional Developer
Gareth J Baker wrote:
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> If memory serves me correctly - some of the early documentation that came
> with the first betas of Harlequin Dylan showed screen shots of both Windows
> and Unix flavours (certainly of DUIM). This would indicate that, at least at
> this very early stage, there were at least internal unix builds.
[caveat I wasn't personally inside the Harlequin during development
but educated speculation follows... ]
I strongly suspect that those may have been the "pre-bootstrap" Dylan
implementation, not what eventually become "Harlequin Dylan".
[ The chicken and the egg problem. If Harlequin Dylan is written in
Dylan what was the first Harlequin Dylan compiler compiled with?
Secondly, would you want to wait for a stable "Harlequin Dylan"
product before you started writing the libraries? Especially
when you use those libraries to create the product. :-)
Likewise, the CMU folks did Mindy before g2c.
]
I think the screw up was that those screenshots from the "in progress",
internal documentation eventually didn't get updated upon product
release. Not that there was a Unix version of the final product that
was being held back.
Lyman
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