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From: zviki@tx.technion.ac.il (Cohen Zviki)
Subject: Re: Is  Apple Technology Release available for Win3.1
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 19:01:52 GMT
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Chris Hanson (chanson@mcs.com) wrote:
: In article <30D56C80.2621@compuserve.com>, Carlos Adolfo Quevedo Zafra
: <76613.2774@compuserve.com> wrote:

: >If not, will be available soon?
: >
: >Thanks in advance

: Flamebait?  Naaah, I'll be nice. :-)

: Here's the deal:  Apple Dylan is available for Apple Macintosh and
: compatible computers.  Harlequin is doing a Windows Dylan environment. 
: These are not the same environment -- they are the same language though.

: I doubt Apple Dylan will ever be available for Windows, and (being a Mac
: fanatic :-) I hope it stays that way.  I have confidence in Harlequin's
: ability to produce a decent Windows and NT environment for the Dylan
: language, so Apple doesn't need to be distracted from supporting itself.

	Maybe Dylan is more important than the Macintosh evangelism. I think
it will be great if code developed with the Apple version of Dylan will run on
Windows platforms, in fact, I think it's vital - Dylan won't get anywhere  
without it. You could say that Harlequin environment will run Dylan code
written in the Apple environment - sure, try running a code from ParcPlace's 
Smalltalk on IBM's Smalltalk...

	Besides, Microsoft has cross platform Visual C++ (at least they say 
they have it), so why shouldn't Apple ?


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