Re: Good book on Dylan?

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Subject: Re: Good book on Dylan?
From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:10:17 -0600
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On Sun, Apr 1, 2001, Mark Jordan <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org> wrote:

>The best way to get new users would be to participate in those
>newsgroups and casually mention that Dylan does this better,
>drop a few references to the DRM etc. Don't you think?

I've seen the results of mentioning on the Java newsgroup that Dylan (or
Lisp or Smalltalk or Objective-C) might do some things better than Java.
It wasn't pretty!

>Also go to places like comp.object where there's currently a
>big discussion on static vs dynamic languages. Then you could
>talk about Dylan and how it offers the best of both worlds.
>This is a great opportunity to spread the gospel, do it now! :-)

This sounds like a better idea.

Scott Ribe
scott_ribe@killerbytes.com
http://www.killerbytes.com/
(303) 665-7007 voice

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Re: Good book on Dylan?

From: "Mark Jordan" <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org>