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Re: What happened to Apple Dylan
On Sunday, June 24, 2001, at 11:13 pm, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> However, I agree very strongly that a window of opportunity for Dylan
> (and
> Common Lisp as well) is opening now, especially on MacOS X, where the
> major
> platform shift (from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X) has opened significant
> market niches because many of the big players have been quite slow off
> the
> mark due to their "wait and see" atitude toward X.
We have Gwydion Dylan and a Carbon API library in Dylan running on MacOS
X (see http://www.robmyers.org/dylan/macosx and
http://www.gwydiondylan.org).
For the fully bracketed, Macintosh Common Lisp is being ported (slowly)
to MacOS X, and CLisp runs on MacOS X already (although the distribution
has a bad directory structure).
Apple have told the big players in no uncertain terms at WWDC this year
that if they don't attack the MacOS X market, newer, smaller players
will. I'm watching Metrowerks with interest.
- Rob.
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