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Started by Christian Lindig
Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:15
Solution: Where to get informations about DYLAN
Author: Christian Lindig
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:15
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:15
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Many thanks to all who replied to my question a few days ago. The solution: + You will get the best informations if you FTP cambridge.apple.com and have a look at /pub/dylan/dylan-faq.txt. All other information in the article are taken mainly from the FAQ. + There are three mailing-lists regarding Dylan: info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com info-dylan-req@cambridge.apple.com (administration) announce-dylan@cambridge.apple.com announce-dylan-req@cambridge.apple.com (administration) dylan-builders@cambridge.apple.com dylan-builders-req@cambridge.apple.com (administration) + Adresse for sending comments to the people working on Dylan at Apple dylan-comments@cambridge.apple.com + The manual is free (from the FAQ): The Dylan manual is not available in electronic form, but a bound copy may be requested by sending your name and address to dylan-manual-request@cambridge.apple.com. As of this writing, there is no charge for the manual. + Other Questions answered by the FAQ: - General Questions About Dylan What is Dylan? What is the target audience for Dylan? How does Dylan differ from previous OODLs? Are there any public mailing lists for discussing Dylan? Does Apple have an implementation of Dylan? Will there be Apple products based on Dylan? Are there third-party implementations of Dylan available? Is Dylan a proprietary language? Why is the Dylan name trademarked? What should I do if I want to implement Dylan? Is the Dylan language design frozen? Are design clarifications available? Is there a group which promotes the use of object-oriented dynamic - Questions about the Dylan Language Design Is Apple planning to specify an alternate syntax for Dylan? Are there plans to specify a standard i/o package for Dylan? Will Dylan specify a standard threading mechanism? Why is 'make' allowed to return a previously allocated instance, or an The Dylan manual doesn't require implementations to optimize tail The Dylan manual doesn't say much about modules. Will this be Can the 'method' special form be used to create closures? I don't understand how setter variables work. Is 'setter' a special Why not just have 'setter' be a function which takes a getter function What kind of object is used to return multiple values? Is the specification of sealing complete? Will Dylan include 'eval'? Will Dylan include an application framework? Will Dylan interface to other languages?
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