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

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• Subject: Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
• From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Road Runner
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Peter da Silva wrote in message <8mmgqg$8bm@web.nmti.com>...
>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.

I am in awe of this wonderful description!

• Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
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• From: jt <gkt37@dial.pipex.com>
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