Re: Origins of Dylan

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Origins of Dylan
From: hs@inferno.nirvananet (Hartmann Schaffer)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <AkO05.45953$Ft1.2549990@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>,
	"Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net> writes:
> It was never the objective of Common Lisp (and CLOS) to make it
> very efficiently compilable, nor was it a goal to allow Lisp apps to
> be compiled down into, e.g., DLL's.
> 
> It was explicitly among Dylan's goals to:
>  - allow very efficient compilation
>  - allow the generation of shared libraries such as DLL's
>  - have a "pay as you go" strategy, whereby unused "advanced"
>    features don't penalize people who don't use those features

wasn't one of the objectives of dylan development to be able to deliver
applications without having to deliver the development environment?

> ...

-- 

Hartmann Schaffer

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