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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Dylan's Future?
In-Reply-To: Wolfgang Ziller's message of 19 Sep 1995 03:52:26 GMT
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Date: 19 Sep 1995 09:15:17 GMT


In article <43lepq$bk8@netnews.upenn.edu> Wolfgang Ziller <wziller@math.upenn.edu> writes:

> >Trouble is, I'm beginning to think that new language isn't Dylan --
> >it's Java, mainly because Java already has a "killer app" in the
> >HotJava WWW browser (and soon Netscape will support it as its
> >extension language, too).  Without wanting to get into religious wars
> >about which language is better, I also think that because Java is more
> >closely derived from C and C++ than Dylan is, it will be easier for
> >the large community of current users of those languages to pick up.
> 
> Ok, but clearly Java wasn't designed for the scope of 
> applications that Dylan can handle.  I don't see Java as
> a suitable replacement for Dylan.

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++?

-- Harley Davis
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