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Conference turris::languages

Title:Languages
Notice:Speaking In Tongues
Moderator:TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN
Created:Sat Jan 25 1986
Last Modified:Wed May 21 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:394
Total number of notes:2683

346.0. "Info on the object-oriented DYLAN language?" by SAAVAK::CHANDLER (Elvis is dead & I don't feel too good myself) Mon Dec 07 1992 20:03

    I have heard rumors that someone within DEC is experimenting with a new
    object-oriented language from Apple Computer called DYLAN and that it
    has been ported to ALPHA.
    
    Can anyone provide a pointer to someone with more information about
    DEC's involvement in this new language?
    
    Thanks and cheers,
    Jim
    
    P.S. Cross-posted in NOTED::OBJECT_ORIENTED
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346.1TLE::VANROGGENTue Dec 08 1992 11:441
    see note 341
346.2SUBWAY::BRIGGSHave datascope, will travel.Wed Dec 09 1992 14:0919
                                                       
    Several members of DEC CRL wrote a Dylan interpreter in Scheme.
    It currently runs under scheme->c, mit-scheme, and one or two others.
    A small modification must be made to scheme->c to allow weak pointers.
    
    Because Apple didn't give necessary legal clearance, and because the
    language reference manual was very vague about some important
    facits of the language, the CRL implementation was named Thomas.
    
    Dylan itself is supposed to be part of a larger software development
    environment in the future, according to D. Moon. The development
    environment is called Hula, and is being developed by Oliver Steele
    at Apple. Dave Moon is working on something called Dynamo (according
    to my notes) which long term is a tool kit for implementing OODLs
    and short term, implements Dylan on MAC.
    
    I asked Ike Nassi, director of  Apple Cambridge Research to comment on 
    Apples own committment to Dylan above and beyond the development effort 
    last September, and he couldn't provide anything convincing at that time.