Chris Page wrote:
> In article <53l921F1spqqqU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Pascal Costanza <pc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I am an outsider, in the sense that I am very happy with Common Lisp
and
>> CLOS and will probably not switch to Dylan for my own uses.
>
> It would be useful if you could expand on why that is.
I like s-expressions, Lisp-2, Common Lisp's macro system, and the
presence of a relatively mature metaobject protocol.
>> On top of that, I am on Mac OS X. Last time I checked, I haven't found
a
>> Dylan implementation for the Mac ...
>
> Clearly, my .sig isn't helping to inform people :-)
>
> Gwydion Dylan has been available on Mac OS X for years:
>
> <http://www.opendylan.org/>
Hm, I swear I have looked at that site a few times, and seem to have
missed it. Sorry.
>> ... and also no development environment. For the latter, a good emacs
>> mode would be sufficient because Aquamacs works pretty well on Macs.
[...]
> I'm currently the primary maintainer of dylan-mode (though I haven't
> changed it in years). If you do end up using it, please do post any
> requests you have for it here.
OK, thanks a lot!
Pascal
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