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Re: A question

A good post and very informative, all.  I am not really inclined to switch
one for the other, I want to go with the language of the 21st century.  It
seems the grammer will be object oriented, now how do we select the semantic
vehicle?

One one hand I'm looking at a tool in use at Disney (a plus) by several of
the best graphics engineers in the world.  On the other, I'm looking at a
language pulled back from the abyss by a company that is unknow to me.
Smalltalk doesn't have to defend its origins or ability to me, Dylan may.

I started out by buying Dylan (this, I assume, is a good thing) and I am now
curious as to whether I should throw good money after bad.

Thanks,

Steve

Eric Clayberg <clayberg@instantiations.com> wrote in message
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> Gregory T. Sullivan <gregs@ai.mit.edu> wrote in message
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> > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Guthrie <steve.guthrie@mantissa.com>
writes:
> >
> >  Stephen> I recently began programming in Squeak (Smalltalk).  Give me a
> reason to
> >  Stephen> come back to Dylan.
> >
> > Plays well with others.
>
> As does Smalltalk.
>
> > The FO implementation of Dylan in particular takes great pains to
> > produce well-behaved "native" app.s.  Both GD and FO Dylan have C
> > FFI's.  FO Dylan also has mature interoperability features for Corba
> > and OLE/COM/ActiveX.
>
> Ditto, Smalltalk.
>
> > Squeak, and Smalltalk in general, is great, but, as far as I could
> > tell when I last looked at it, tends to assume a mostly closed,
> > Smalltalk-centric world.
>
> While this may be true to a limited extent with Squeak, it is definitely
> *not* true with the Smalltalk world in general. All of the major
commercial
> Smalltalk dialects go to great lengths to make it easy to interoperate
with
> the rest of the world via just about any mechanism you would hope for.
> C-language interfaces? Got it. DLL interfaces? Got it.
> Corba/COM/OLE/ActiveX? Got it.
>
> If you want to come up with reasons why one should switch from Dylan to
> Smalltalk, you are going to have to try a bit harder than that.
>
> -Eric
>
>
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