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Subject: Re: Dylan Competitive Analysis: Dylan vs. SmalltalkAgents?
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In article <3jde3u$aha@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
           sef@CS.CMU.EDU "Scott Fahlman" writes:

> programs.  While there is no simple and obvious mapping of Dylan
> surface syntax to an easily manipulable internal representation, as
> there is for Lisp, we hope that the various Dylan implementors will
> eventually agree upon a a standard internal form for Dylan programs,
> and we plan to propose such a standard in the near future.  (It isn't
> required that everyone USE this standrd form within their own
> implementations -- just they they be able to produce and read it.)

I assume that you mean export and import code in the standard form?
Like the "file in" and "file out" operations in some languages?
The terms "produce and read" are unfamiliar to me in this context,
while export and import and _very_ familiar terms.

Thanks,
Martin Rodgers
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