Re: Whither Dylan?

[Bob Cassels <bobcassels@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andreas@andreas.org wrote:

>Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@ai.mit.edu> writes:
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>>goo is a stripped down rethought dylan which is simpler and more
>>dynamic.  it's meant to be implementable in on the order of 10k lines
>>of code.  i did it originally as a teaching and research vehicle
>>finding it easier to teach and play with ideas in the much smaller
>>code base.  it's not a competitor.
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>Imagine that work would be underway to refurbish the Dylan standard,
>working title "Dylan 2.0".  What would you suggest to change in Dylan,
>especially given the experience with goo?
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A simple one is to adopt (as GOO did) the C3 class linearization, 
described in 
<http://www.webcom.com/haahr/dylan/linearization-oopsla96.html>.  We 
(the Apple Dylan group) would have done it ourselves, but we ran out of 
time.

Harder is to do a better job with macros.  I don't actually know what 
state they are in, but I know that the last time I looked they were 
"unfinished".  Of course GOO's sexp syntax means it doesn't have to deal 
with some of the harder issues.  Jonathan -- did your work on Java 
macros give you any ideas about how to do them better in Dylan?

Bob