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Re: Origins of Dylan
Hartmann Schaffer wrote in message <3943dbc6$1@news.sentex.net>...
>In article <AkO05.45953$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?
Yes, that was an explicit goal, although I confess that it now
seems so obvious given the other goals, that I plainly forgot
to mention it. Thanks for correcting my failing memory!
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