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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Dylan article in BYTE
Message-ID: <1996Mar7.182227.11719@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 18:22:27 GMT
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A-ColinY@microsoft.com (Colin Yakeley) writes:

>In article <Ul=q1d600YUxMCTUwb@andrew.cmu.edu>, Samuel John Kass
><samkass+@CMU.EDU> wrote:

>>The problem is that Object Oriented is now tied to C++.
>>
>>What Apple, et al., have to do, is invent a new keyword that
>>encompasses some other cool aspect of Dylan that C++ doesn't have.
>>Then declare Dylan to be the only real contender in the class, and
>>sell it that way. 
>>
>>Then people won't be comparing it to C++ on C++'s terms, they'll be
>>looking at what defines the class that Dylan is a part of (possibly
>>the only member of), and why that's better/worse than Object
>>Orientation. 
>>
>>In other words, take some marketing cues from Microsoft.

>The ability to edit a program's code while it is running will seriously
>shorten development time.  I'm not a marketer, but I'd recommend Dylan
>implementors to sell this particular feature.

That's what most Lisp vendors do these days. Especially Franz
Inc. talks about "dynamic languages". 

Martin
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