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From: wood@cs.dal.ca (Ron Wood)
Subject: Re: Dylan for CodeWarrior?
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Gordon Henriksen (gordon@micron.net) wrote:
: I'm interested in Dylan (anything but assemby is an improvement over C++)
: and I love the CodeWarrior product from Metrowerks. Does anybody know if
: there is a Dylan compiler planned for the CodeWarriorIDE? I'd hate to
: switch from MW...

I asked that very question by sending a message to Greg Galanos, the 
president of the company. (There's a "mail the president" link somewhere 
in MetroWorks pages.) He replied that they had no intention of supporting 
Dylan. It sounded rather final. On the other hand, if other Dylan 
afficionados keep asking the same question over and over again, and take 
time to explain the benefits of adopting Dylan, then maybe he'll change 
his mind...

I don't have the e-mail address in front of me, so you'll have to look it 
up at Metrowerks (http://www.metrowerks.com, I think).

I also asked Patrick Beard whether he would provide a version of his 
MacMindy for the Metrowerks IDE, as he has for Symantec's. He said he was 
still waiting to get the specs for the new MW IDE, and grumbled a bit 
about that. Something about Symantec's editor recognizing Dylan's syntax 
and MW not?

I also expressed some interest in seeing either MacMindy or MacMarlais 
made into a shared library (SOM) so that an IDE could be built in OpenDoc 
to send code for compilation or interpretation. And then extensions could 
be added to allow prototyping of OpenDoc part editors in quasi-Dylan, at 
least. (This is what I really want Dylan for.) He was intrigued by the 
idea, I think, but made no promises.

-Ronald S. Wood.
