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Re: Good book on Dylan?

In article <CaNx6.5014$I5.6892@stones>, "Mark Jordan" 
<mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org> wrote:

> The best way to get new users would be to participate in those
> newsgroups and casually mention that Dylan does this better,
> drop a few references to the DRM etc. Don't you think?
> 
> Also go to places like comp.object where there's currently a
> big discussion on static vs dynamic languages. Then you could
> talk about Dylan and how it offers the best of both worlds.
> This is a great opportunity to spread the gospel, do it now! :-)

I try to do exactly that.  But you've got to be low-key about it.  And I 
haven't done it in comp.object for maybe a couple of months.

Your implementation also needs to be *ready*, otherwise it can be 
counter-productive.

With d2c, I think we still really need to get the C-FFI in place before 
the big push.  We've got some important things such as class- and 
each-subclass- slots and limited collections in place recently, so it's 
getting pretty close.  More speed in the compiler and smaller 
executables would be the icing, but I think they're not totally 
necessary at the start.

-- Bruce
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