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

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
• From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Engineering Netwrk Support, ABBNM
• References: <8mgjlr$6vq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8mhbt1$has$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>
• Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:12559 comp.lang.misc:33742 comp.ai.philosophy:93176 comp.software-eng:86949

In article <8mhbt1$has$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Jonathan Coupe <jonathan@meanwhile.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The capability you refer to is entirely standard for the Lisp family of
> languges, of which Dylan is a member. Far from being exotic, it's a
> capability that's decades old and is shared by several other languages.

Including Forth and its descendent Postscript.

> What puzzles me is that you've posted constantly (often on inappropriate
> groups) concerning AI for years, and yet you don't know such a basic fact
> about the most common of all AI languages, Lisp.

Why is that puzzling? I'm not that well versed in AI, but everything I've
seen him write on any subject I *do* know about has displayed similar levels
of understanding.

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