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From: edwards@intranet.com (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: Dylan's Future?
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davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis) wrote:

>That isn't at all clear to me.  Could you explain Java's limitations
>as a general purpose language compared to Dylan and other widely-used
>languages such as C++?

Well, how about lack of a modern development environment: source-level
debugging, visual GUI composition, browsers, etc. Currently Java is in
a somewhat toy-like state, which is OK because it is being used to
build toys (HotJava applets).

Semantically, the inability to write methods that act like data
members is a real problem for many things, such as database access and
distributed computing.

