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And Objective-C is a derivative/recreation/highly inspired by SmallTalk. But my question is, what modern language today is a copy of Dylan?

• pavlov 11y ago
  None of them, unfortunately? (Unless I'm forgetting something.) Of the languages created at Apple, Dylan was the most interesting one. Swift is practical in many ways, but it's not inspired or visionary. Swift is basically a better C++ with decent Cocoa interop built-in. It's comparable to C# in originality... And that's not putting down either Apple or Microsoft -- it's simply the realities of creating a language at a large corporation with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Retra 11y ago
    I don't think 'originality' should be the goal of any language. Being novel for the sake of novelty inhibits effective communication, it doesn't enhance it.
    • AnimalMuppet 11y ago
      Originality is a virtue if the language really has a better way of solving certain problems that people face. Even if it has merely a different way of solving certain problems, that may be very worthwhile, because the different way may in fact turn out to be better. But novelty just for the sake of novelty... yeah, not so much.
• yarrel 11y ago
  Dylan is - http://opendylan.org/ http://opendylan.org/ :-)
• jghn 11y ago
  R's S4 oop system is deeply inspired by Dylan