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Subject: Re: Dylan Implementations
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In article <35smar$7ef@pigeon.island.com> richer@island.com "Mark Richer" writes:

> In conclusion, the one thing I hear over and over again when talking to
> a commercial app developer: "Has anyone shipped a shrink-wrap package
> I've heard of using this tool?" MacApp made it over this hurdle with
> Photoshop and lots of other products. I think it's important that Dylan
> does as well. Will Claris develop a product with Dylan? Will Apple?
> Will the Newton development environment be rewritten using Dylan? Will
> a hit product be written with Dylan? If you can't answer yes to some
> questions of this sort, then I think success for Dylan will be elusive.

I think that what you're saying is that Dylan will need a "kill app".

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