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Re: dylan revival



"Adam Tissa" <verb_precedes_adjective@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >I'd like a Lisp or Dylan that works on it but on the Nokia 9210 there is
> >only about 3MB of free memory to play with and the less used the better
to
> >allow other applications to run.
>
> Perhaps that is why they use C++.
>

Possibly, but I would've liked a C API or one that sits on top of it. One of
the problems with C++ is if they add a new virtual method to a base class
all programs that use that class have to be recompiled. It makes things very
fragile when all user apps have to be rebuilt for system upgrades. BeOS
worked around this by having 'dummy' virtual methods that could be replaced
with real methods if needed later. Then you'd only need to rebuild client
apps when you run out of dummy methods. I don't know how Symbian gets around
this.

Chris.
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