| | Book review: Programming in Dylan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | This example is hopelessly contrived, and the most interesting topics for a programming language -- I/O, modules, libraries and interfaces -- aren't demonstrated by the sample program at all. |
 | | It's unfortunate that Dylan now seems to be effectively moribund: Apple abandoned it; the sole commercial version from Functional Objects appears to be comatose; and Gwydion Dylan, the free compiler originally from CMU, doesn't appear to have a sufficient developer population to maintain and extend it enough to keep the software viable. |
 | | One problem is that a Dylan compiler is much more like a Lisp compiler than like a C compiler and is correspondingly more complex; while reading the book I could vaguely imagine how I'd write an interpreted version of Dylan, but writing a compiler, even a stupid compiler, seemed much more difficult. |
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