Re: newbie questions and comments

[Terrence Brannon <address@hidden>]

On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 11:02 AM, McLagan, Doug wrote:

> the ll1 conference website got me to reading about various 
> things, including
> the dylan language.  very interesting.

dylan also took 2nd place in the ICFP 2001 contest. not easy to do.

>
>
> wondering like everyone what will catch on next.  python is 
> obviously coming
> on strong, but it might have limitations that will leave room for 
> something
> else to become big.
>

I think it depends on if you are trying to be marketable as an 
employee. Obviously the most jobs out there are for Java. You 
might hang out on comp.lang.misc on usenet to see what languages 
are being discussed also.

> comments on any of this would be welcome.  also, specifically, 
> dylan appears
> to be proprietary.  is this correct, and if so, is that a big 
> problem for
> the language?  are there any similar open-source projects?

You probably went to http://www.fun-o.com, they have a commercial Dylan.

But there is also http://www.gwydiondylan.org . they were the 
people who won the ICFP... and this is free.

long edit-run cycle though as Dylan compiles to C and then must be run

>
> thanks, and i'll try not to be a pain.
>
> DM
>