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Re: Good book on Dylan?
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:01:46 -0700, "Mark Jordan"
<mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org> wrote:
>"Scott Ribe" <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com> wrote in message
>news:200103311954.OAA24026@life.ai.mit.edu...
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Mark Jordan <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>> >It's no wonder that it's so quiet around here, nobody even knows that
>> >Dylan exists! I'm beginning to wonder if there's some fatal flaw I haven't
>> >spotted yet...
>>
>> Yeah, technical quality doesn't make a language well-known. For that you
>> need 100s of millions of dollars to spread lies so pervasively and
>> persistently that they become widely believed. Reference Java and C# for
>> examples of how this is done ;-)
>
>What I'm wondering is why Microsoft invented C# and Sun
>invented Java when there are languages like Dylan around
>just waiting to be used? Maybe they didn't know about it?
>If that's the case, it doesn't say much about the quality of
>their researchers.
>
>Cheers,
>Mark.
>
The cynic in me thinks because Sun didn't own dylan trademark and
Microsoft didn't want to use java in Sun's terms. NIH basically.
Muzaffer
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