Re: Where to now that Dylan is moribund ?

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• Subject: Re: Where to now that Dylan is moribund ?
• From: israel raj thomas <israelt@optushome.com.au>
• Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 04:30:02 -0500 (EST)
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>| > ... It is precisely Lisp's "fingernail parings"
>| > (list-based notation for program source) that make its powerful macros
>| > so incredibly easy to write & maintain. Show me *any* other language[*]
>| > with anything close to Lisp's builtin "read" primitive, not to mention
>| > providing the *full* language at compile time to reflexively construct
>| > arbitrary source programs.

I am probably wrong, but I would have assumed that any language with
support for reflection could do that. Sure, Lisp has a far more
complete implementation of the metaobject protocol.
However, relection is found in :
Smalltalk
Self
Agora
Napier
and probably others...

• Any applications coded in Dylan?
• From: Zeno <zenem@nospam.earthlink.net>

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