Re: Overcoming the "Dylan is Dead" belief?

I'm a relative newbie to the world of Dylan. I hadn't heard of it from its
Apple days. I believe it was a friend on Twitter that suggested I check it
out originally. I had some experience playing with Lisps, and I found
Dylan's syntax to be more approachable.

I don't think that changing the syntax, renaming the language or any of
that is going to help. The libraries will make a difference, that's for
sure, as would documentation. I've seen that evolve dramatically since I
started following the community.

I think the best way to get Dylan more visible and get more people
involved is to have a successful project written in Dylan. Something
people want to use and read the source.

I'll admit that I'm not sure what that project should be, but I'm willing
to participate. My background is that of an app developer, primarily
database-focused. I've been working on the sqlite bindings, and adding
support for sqlite to the sql library that ships with Dylan. Lots of apps
make good use of embedded databases. :)

On 9/13/13 10:54 PM, "Alexey Muranov" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 11 Sep 2013, at 07:21, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I'm sometimes tempted to change the name, but I feel like it would be
>> artificial unless we did it because we changed the language
>>significantly.
>> New syntax, anyone?  :-)
>
>I would like to put in my two cents :) : i have already "complained" on
>this mailing list about semicolons in Dylan.  I would prefer the Ruby
>style, when line breaks separate expressions, and a backslash can be used
>to continue lines, or a continued line can me inferred from the syntax.
>This would be more like in scripting languages.  I have not yet tried
>Dylan as a scripting language, but i am curious about it.
>
>The idea about changing name looked strange to me.
>
>Best,
>
>Alexey.
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