Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?

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• Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 09:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Christopher Browne wrote in message ...

>And actually, these days, languages with the EVAL function are getting
>to be a dime a dozen, as the scripting languages like Perl and Python
>that have grown quite popular also support introspection.


Maybe by 2010, "mainstream" programming languages will catch
up to c. 1965 Lisp.  With any luck, by 2020, they'll manage to get
to c. 1985 Lisp and SmallTalk.

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