Re: Dylan's direction

• Subject: Re: Dylan's direction
• From: Rob Myers <robm@lostwax.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:11:06 +0000
• CC: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Organization: Lost Wax Media Ltd.
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James Dominy wrote:

>  I personally like
> the idea of dylan becoming an important web technology. Other
> languages like java, javascript, perl, python, etc. have enjoyed
> much success lately mostly due to their web tie-ins.

The web market is over-crowded, and the major players are well-established.
Dylan's strength is probably application/tool building rather than as a
replacement for Servlets, althoguh the web can be an important proving-ground.

>    I'd like to hear other people's opinions on the future of dylan
> and where people think we should focus our efforts.

XML. If we have a socket library, an HTTP library and XML we have the web,
XML-RPC and serialization to XML.

- Rob.

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