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Do you think the CMUCL team who went on to make non-sexp based Dylan are just people who suck at programming? No, but close. They were designing a language for
by pg 18y ago
Do you think the CMUCL team who went on to make non-sexp based Dylan are just people who suck at programming?
No, but close. They were designing a language for other people who did. The original intention with Dylan was to create a Lisp that was made more accessible for mainstream programmers.
Ditto Guy Steele on Java: "we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers;
we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them
about halfway to Lisp."
- rsheridan6 18y agoI didn't get to this in a timely manner due to a Christmas vacation, but I'll bite anyway. I didn't know that Dylan was considered a LFM rather than a LFSP by its creators, but I do know that at least of them gets s-expressions and still thinks they're a bad idea. See Dave Moon's suggestion: http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt