Re: Fwd: Dylan stuff

Is it time yet to ask again whether anyone has a dusty floppy backup
of the Apple Dylan source code? It's 20 years later and probably no
current Apple management even remembers it existed.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:39 AM, mikel evins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
>
>> I like the infix syntax that Dylan has and find it very comfortable to
>> use, but I'm not allergic to prefix. And most of the things that annoy
>> me about elisp and scheme syntax were fixed in the original Dylan
>> prefix syntax anyway.[1]
>>
>> The infix syntax was an attempt to appeal to Pascal and C programmers
>> and it didn't work. The success of JavaScript suggests that the main
>> problem was it was still too different looking to C. Well, and it
>> never had a killer app.
>
> Not to mention that its mother (Apple) was fickle and kicked it out the door at birth, and has steadfastly pretended not to know it ever since.
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