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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: New info from the Dylan home page
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From http://www.cambridge.apple.com/dylan/dylan.html:

Dylan

"Apple: The power to cancel your very best"

Dylan is a new language developed at Apple. It is a bold new effort to
create a powerful, practical tool for writing mainstream commercial
applications. We believe it combines the best qualities of static
languages (small, fast programs) with the best qualities of dynamic
languages (rapid development, code that's easy to read, write and
maintain). 

A "Technology Release" of Apple Dylan will be available in November 1995. 
This is an integrated development environment for the Macintosh platform.
The price is expected to be about $40. This technology release will
generate standalone applications and libraries for 68K Macs, native
PowerPC, and fat binaries. The development environment itself will not be
PPC-native, and hence will run emulated on PowerPCs. The Technology
Release will be of a rough, beta quality, and Apple has not announced any
plans to support or continue development of Apple Dylan past the
Technology Release. 

[as of Oct. 1995] Both Harlequin and Carnegie-Mellon University have
announced their intent to continue working on commercial-quality Dylan
releases, for Windows and Unix platforms, respectively. See below for
further info. 

[SNIP]

Dylan is far more than just an Apple project. It had better be,
considering Apple's degree of support. We enthusiastically welcome and
encourage implementations for all platforms. Several are underway,
including commercial and non-commercial efforts, for major platforms
including Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Unix. Read the FAQ for further
information. 



