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Those 4 bullet points all sound a lot like Dylan (http://opendylan.org/ http://opendylan.org/). I'd have said Common Lisp as well, but some might argue point #

by BruceM 14y ago

Those 4 bullet points all sound a lot like Dylan (http://opendylan.org/ http://opendylan.org/). I'd have said Common Lisp as well, but some might argue point #1 with respect to that. It is nice to see others (re-)discovering the joy of full on multiple dispatch though!

pjmlp 14y ago
Reading the new Dylan documentation makes me wonder how if would have turned out if Apple invested more strongly in the language. An expressive dynamic language with repl and native code compilers. quite nice. The one thing so far that I don't like is <> around identifiers.
- cgay 14y ago
  < > is a naming convention for types (e.g., classes) only.
  - pjmlp 14y ago
    I know, but still makes the code ugly to my liking.