Re: Good book on Dylan?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Good book on Dylan?
From: "Mark Jordan" <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Reply-To: "Mark Jordan" <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org>
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"Scott Ribe" <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com> wrote in message
news:200103311954.OAA24026@life.ai.mit.edu...
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Mark Jordan <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org> wrote:
>
> >It's no wonder that it's so quiet around here, nobody even knows that
> >Dylan exists! I'm beginning to wonder if there's some fatal flaw I haven't
> >spotted yet...
>
> Yeah, technical quality doesn't make a language well-known. For that you
> need 100s of millions of dollars to spread lies so pervasively and
> persistently that they become widely believed. Reference Java and C# for
> examples of how this is done ;-)

What I'm wondering is why Microsoft invented C# and Sun
invented Java when there are languages like Dylan around
just waiting to be used? Maybe they didn't know about it?
If that's the case, it doesn't say much about the quality of
their researchers.

Cheers,
Mark.

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