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Re: a thought on mixing Dylan & HTML



Not Dylan related, but...

On 16 Mar 2002, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:
> Programming-language design has been the focus of vigorous research
> and innovation for 45 years *without* any intellectual-property
> inducements.  Implementations have been covered by copyright, but the
> languages themselves have been covered by neither patents or
> copyrights.  The only exceptions to this rule that I know of are the
> recent Rebol language and some protection which amounted to the moral
> equivalent of Trademark on Ada to prevent incomplete implementations
> from calling themselves Ada implementations and more recently similar
> protection on Java, particularly the phrase "100% Java".

More recently, the Ada community has abandoned this awful strategy, and
has even gone a step further in that the ANSI/ISO language spec,
Rationale, etc., are freely available. Somewhat ironically, the most
complete (in that it fully implements most optional Ada annexes)
implementation is GNAT, the GNU Ada compiler.

On a more Dylan related note, I don't see why anyone would want to give up
Dylan for Curl yet. In fact, I notice that some Dylan people now at MIT
are off doing new languages. IMO a Dylan-2 or Dylan-2K would make more
sense...

-- Brian