Re: Overcoming the "Dylan is Dead" belief?

I don't think the name can or should be changed.

It would be nice to pop up out of nowhere as the hot new language, but I
think Dylan is actually missing what is necessary to do that, mostly in
terms of a modern easy to use library of data structures and OS interfaces.

Ironically, the niche that Dylan could have owned has been taken by even
more dynamic (but more restrictive) and dead slow languages such as Python
and Ruby.

One huge advantage that Dylan does have, potentially, is that something
much closer to what Python and Ruby people are used to can be done without
becoming incompatable with existing Dylan code, simply by leaving the
existing "use Dylan" (or common-Dylan) alone, and use a new name for a new
set of data structures (strings mostly) and *possibly* different control
constructs and method definition macros etc (though I like the existing
ones well enough).




On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Repeatedly, I have run into people who thought Dylan was long gone and
> dead.  People often think it was an Apple-only project and that when Apple
> killed Apple Dylan, it was the fatal blow and that there wasn't anything
> available.
>
> This has been a common refrain in conversations, when we do a release
> ("Wow, I didn't know Dylan was still around."), and when others bring it up.
>
> It has been suggested a number of times that we should consider renaming
> things to divorce ourselves from the past and allow people to get to know
> us under a new identity.  That'd be a lot of work though and would have
> issues with things like the DRM and DPG which we can't go and rename.  I
> also think that having the history is valuable at times in and of itself.
> Dylan had grand origins and it needn't shy away from them, perhaps.
>
> What can we do? What should we do?
>
>  - Bruce
>
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