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From: Johan.Dahl@ling.lu.se (Johan Dahl)
Subject: Re: Message passing versus multi-method
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:50:34 GMT
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In article <CARROLL.95Feb6095351@auriga.cis.udel.edu>,
carroll@auriga.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Chu-Carroll) wrote:

> Personally, I prefer multimethods, which is why I'm working with Dylan
> instead of smalltalk.

I'm not trying to be unpolite or sarcastic or negative in any way but how
can you work with a language which lacks any serious implementation. I'm
just curious. I have though of using Dylan/Mindy in a compiler
construction class I am attending. I've read almost everything about the
language and I'm thought of doing this because it's a big difference
between writing toy programs and do some more serious "work". So, my point
is that are you doing with Dylan. This would be very interesting.

Maybe the rest of you using/exploring Dylan could post some code snippets
that would show off some off the features of the language. I've ftp'ed
down some 900 Kb of old postings to this newsgroup and very much of the
stuff was Dylan syntax versus C++. Infix versus prefix etc. I would prefer
posting which shows potential features or lacks in Dylan versus whatever
with solutions to the problems in the language as is not what they
(Apple!?) should or could have done. 

    Johan Dahl, Sweden
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Johan Dahl Johan.Dahl@ling.lu.se
Department of Lingvistics and Phonetics
University of Lund
Sweden
