Re: Overcoming the "Dylan is Dead" belief?

Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:01:49 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
Message-ID <CA+esKjNo8TiQrz6Jx6LDaGR1sepuHeAgYr+DteHu_wWasU48bw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> wrote:

> Data structures: primarily improving string handling, that I can
> immediately think of.
>

Have you seen this:

http://opendylan.org/documentation/library-reference/strings/
http://opendylan.org/documentation/library-reference/regular-expressions/

What's missing from there other than Unicode (which is big)?


> OS stuff .. navigating directory structures, slurping up files in various
> ways (whole file, by line, by string or RE delim) etc. Processes.
> Networking.
> You can do everything in Dylan, but I think for a beginner things such as
> Python and Ruby are more discoverable, better documented, and terser.
>

Will respond to this later as I must run out for some errands.

 - Bruce

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