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 10:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <mlindanne-0608001506160001@c154.ppp.tsoft.com>,
China Black & Blue <mlindanne@hotmail.com> wrote:
> And maybe by 2020, Lisp and Smalltalk will be efficient enough to write
> operating system kernels and interrupt drivers in.

Since Xerox was able to get Smalltalk running on a Z80 I don't think that
the problem with Smalltalk was efficiency. If Smalltalk had been promoted
properly.... ah well, another missed opportunity.

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