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

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• Subject: Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
• From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: ABB Network Management
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In article <398EA28C.97F804D3@dial.pipex.com>,
jt  <gkt37@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Do you claim technically good = commercially successful? If so, what
> sort of technical attributes must a language/system have that ensures
> commercial viability?

It has to be difficult to interoperate with, while providing the hooks
needed for application programs via a sufficiently complex API such that
programs written for it are inherently non-portable. If this makes it
hard to replace the first implementation with an improved one that is
an acceptable cost... application and environment lock-in are the only
critical requirements.

-- 
 `-_-'   In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva.
  'U`    "Ar rug tú barróg ar do mhactíre inniu?" 

         Disclaimer: Matthew 10:16.

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