Re: Newbie question: Dylan and OOP?

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• Subject: Re: Newbie question: Dylan and OOP?
• From: Doug Orleans <dougo@ccs.neu.edu>
• Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:21:52 -0500 (EST)
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Jason Trenouth writes:
 > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:30:02 -0500 (EST), "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > I think it's telling that Java, e.g., cannot be implemented using it's own
 > > objects and abstractions from the ground up in Java, but Dylan can be.
 > > (For example, arithmetic and arrays can't be implemented, never
 > > mind extended, in Java, but are just part of the language in Dylan). 
 > 
 > Well, much as I hate to mention them, there are projects like the
 > following:
 > 
 > "Jalapeno" <http://www.research.ibm.com/jalapeno/>
 > 
 > and
 > 
 > "OpenJIT" <www.openjit.org>
 > 
 > __Jason

While we're talking about Dylan-like extensions to Java, check these out:

MultiJava: Modular Open Classes and Symmetric Multiple Dispatch for Java
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/Papers/oopsla00.html

OpenJava: An Extensible Java (with a MOP)
http://www.hlla.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~mich/openjava/

--dougo@ccs.neu.edu

• Newbie question: Dylan and OOP?
• From: "Doug Ball" <doug@postsmart.net>
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• Re: Newbie question: Dylan and OOP?
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