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From: "Jonathan Sobel" <jsobel@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Dylan interpretor for Unix/X?
Message-ID: <1995Jan30.143249.15706@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:32:45 -0500
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First, in article <3gbljf$gju@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
anf1@rsrch1.cit.cornell.edu (Adi Fairbank) wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a Dylan interpretor for Unix or X Window that
> is in development yet?  Or even for PC?  Thanks for any info..

Then, in article <3gesf2$b7q@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>,
Scott Fahlman <sef@CS.CMU.EDU> replied:

> Our future Gwydion implementation, now under intensive development,
> will run on Unix X and Windows NT, but it will not be based on an
> interpreter.  You will eventually be able to get the same effect by a
> fast compile-execute operation, as in CMU CL and other modern Common
> Lisp implementations.

Like the Gwydion project, my Dylan system will be a compiler which can
both act like a traditional interpreter and output executable code
like the usual C compiler.  Along the way, however, I will have a
regular (well, mostly...) interpreter around for my own use in
developing the compiler.  I plan to make it available for public use
as well.  The interpreter ought to be able to run on just about any
system for which there is a reasonable C++ compiler.  This includes
Unix, OS/2, Windows, DOS, and Mac.  I do my work on Unix and OS/2 (and
occasionally Windows), so those are the most likely to have all the
kinks worked out right away.

Watch for more word in February.

					Jonathan Sobel
					jsobel@cs.indiana.edu

