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From: rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: New Dylan user!
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:55:43 GMT
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In article <page-0503960035150001@page.vip.best.com>, page@best.com (Chris
Page) wrote:

> In article <rfenney-030396132204@rfenney.slip.netcom.com>,
> rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney) wrote:
> 
> > I just got Dylan a couple of weeks ago and will be installing it in the
> > next day or two! It is the APPLE Technology release 1. Any suggestions?
> > Anything I need to look out for? I have over 10 years of C++, 2-3 years of
> > Objective-C, and 2-3 years of Smalltalk so OOP should not be a problem! I
> > am looking forward to seeing what is interesting in the environment.
> 
> #1 - It's dog slow and takes hogloads of memory.
> #2 - It's incompatible with Speed Doubler's Speed Emulator, which I was
> really hoping to take advantage of to speed up Dylan (did I mention it's
> slow?).
> #3 - Be aware that it is not a complete Dylan implementation (most
> annoyingly to me: no implementation of "limited()" and "union-type()").
> #4 - Explore the wonderful browsers. I really wish I had a C++ environment
> with the Apple Dylan browsers.
> #5 - At least one of the projects contains sample projects that are in
> different folders than when the project was created. As a result, you have
> to manually traverse the subprojects recursively and locate them (by
> double-clicking the subproject, then selecting the subproject file in the
> file dialog) before you can use the project.
> #6 - If you're patient, it's a wonderful experience...have fun!
> 
> -- 
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Chris,

Thanks for the information. I am really interested in the environment so I
can't wait to use the browsers. And is this release ever slow!

Robert
