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Subject: Re: Dylan Competitive Analysis: Dylan vs. SmalltalkAgents?
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In article <3jhvri$k78@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
           sef@CS.CMU.EDU "Scott Fahlman" writes:

> I'm not sure why you want to quibble over terms here.  I just mean
> that if we produce a standard internal form for the purpose of
> allowing portable programs to manipulate and, in a dynamic development
> environment, execute Dylan code, each implementation would need some
> means for converting between this standard code format and either
> Dylan surface langauge or whatever other representation it uses
> internally.

That's what I thought you meant. It's just that the term (or
terms) you used were unfamiliar to me.
 
> The terms "export" and "import" seem very batch-oriented, which will
> be appropriate for some kinds of environments, but not all.  Maybe
> they don't carry that connotation for you.

No, they don't have that connotation for me. "Importing" and
"exporting" are common terms with the kind of Windows apps I use
or read about. In fact, I first ecnountered the terms when I was
using MIDI software on the ST, and the MIDI standard file format
appeared. Sequencers would export standard files.

Some apps have "filters" for file formats for similar apps from
other vendors. Since the only such apps that I can recall is
Microsoft Word, perhaps that's just Microsoft-speak. That's why
I always ask for clarification when I have doubts about what
someone means when they use a term or phrase.

Thanks.
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