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From: fritza@iquest.net (Fritz Anderson)
Subject: Re: Dylan and COBRA/SOM
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In article <3nem8b$2f4h@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>, zachary@shadow.rrl.lsu.edu
(John Zachary) wrote:

>   I recently finished a paper for a graduate level programming languages
> class at LSU on developing a binding for Dylan to the SOM architecture.
...
> Alas, this doesn't seem to be something that
> Apple is considering (however, I do realize that they aren't even finished
> with the language). Is this worth my time pursuing? I became very interested
> in this and have started to map what little IDL I got my hands on
> to some constructs in Dylan.

SOM is foundational to OpenDoc, the compound-document architecture on
which it is betting the company.  OpenDoc is being developed jointly by
Apple, IBM, and Novell at CILabs.  Their home page is:
      http://www.cil.org/
It is fair to assume that an Apple Dylan would support OpenDoc, and that
the easiest way (for Dylan users) to do that is for Dylan to generate
direct-to-SOM code.

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