Re: Good book on Dylan?

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Subject: Re: Good book on Dylan?
From: Raffael Cavallaro <raffael@mediaone.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:24:49 -0400
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On Sunday, April 1, 2001, at 05:45 PM, Mark Jordan wrote:

> I'm sure there would be many C++ programmers like me
> who would switch at the drop of a hat if they could find
> something better than C++.

You'd think so, but to managers, vendor support means a lot, and right 
now, Dylan is looking like a language which may go away (commercially) 
at any time due to lack of mindshare/marketshare/etc. Of course that 
leaves Gwydion, but how many managers would rather go with a 
work-in-progress open source project compiler than, say, Microsoft 
DevStudio or some big name, big money commercial IDE/compiler?

In other words, the herd mentality works against Dylan, despite its 
objective superiority as a language.

Raf

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Re: Good book on Dylan?

From: "Mark Jordan" <mark_jordan@nospam.ieee.org>