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From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: Will Apple use Dylan for development?
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 04:11:51 GMT
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In article <9501072259.AA02617@newton.apple.com>,
Ken Dickey <KenD@apple.com> wrote:
>So how did you hear about Dylan?  If you went to the Developer Central area
>at MacWorld you would see that there was plenty of interest in Dylan and
>they were certainly not hiding under a fig leaf.  Your statement does not
>make any sense to me.

And where was the Dylan evangelist when Byte did their recent cover story on
the future technologies of Apple? No mention of Dylan at all.
Particularly ironic, as the famous "balloon" issue of Byte did much to 
initially popularize Smalltalk.
As far as I can see, Dylan is getting 0 marketing from Apple. At least to a
first approximation compared to Taligent and OpenDoc.
Though I admit to not being tuned in to the Apple world, so maybe I have just
missed it all.

I'm not sure, but I probably first heard of Dylan in comp.lang.lisp.

Don't get me wrong: I am fervently for Dylan, so much so that I am considering
whether I can make a commercial commitment to it despite its vaporous state.

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