On Feb 8, 4:49 am, "MarkHanif...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <MarkHanif...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Feb 7, 3:14 pm, dylan....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > On Jan 18, 1:37 am, "Peter S. Housel" <hou...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > He means we think that if this were a better world, then Dylan would
be
> > > considered *the* up-and-coming C/C++ replacement.
>
> > So, in this clearly *imperfect* world, what is *the* upcoming C/C++
> > replacement? Just curious...
Who cares? Seriously.
> > I remain very interested in Dylan, it has attributes that I've not
> > seen in other languages...
>
> The problem is that that there aren't enough people interested in
> Dylan that are also able or willing to work on Dylan itself. Did DUIM
> ever get a gtk+ backend? What's the status of OpenDylan on Linux?
> Apple dropped Dylan. Java came out and stole a lot of developer
> mindshare from superior solutions, which basically was the cause of
> the demise of Functional Objects.
OpenDylan has been very stable on Linux for quite some time now. For
example we've been running the Dylan web server+wiki on it with no
problems. Also, Hannes Mehnert just fixed a difficult threading bug
that just showed up during some stress testing of the web server so
it's even more stable now. :-)
> Rails gave Ruby the limelight. What's the killer app for Dylan?
I don't know, but Hannes Mehnert and Andreas Bogk have been doing some
cool stuff with networking protocol/security tools, described here:
http://www.opendylan.org/~hannes/secure-networking.pdf
-Carl
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