DYLAN

Etymology:
DYLAN = DYnamic LANguage

DOCs:
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/dylan-manual/
ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Dylan.Information/Dylan.Interim.Manual/
http://legend.gwydion.cs.cmu.edu:8001/dylan/interim/interim-contents.html

FAQ:
Apple Computer:
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/faq/
ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Dylan.Information/Dylan.FAQ_2.June94/

Home Pages:
http://www.cambridge.apple.com/
http://legend.gwydion.cs.cmu.edu:8001/

Note:
198.112.73.3 = 
ftp.cambridge.apple.com
cambridge.apple.com
brazil.cambridge.apple.com

                                                 1. MARLAIS

Etymology:  see *, **,***

MAC NAME: MacMarlais                                     

VERSION: 0.5d55                                 

README:
"Welcome to MacMarlais. This is a port of the UN*X program Marlais (version 0.5.8) to the Macintosh. MacMarlais provides a nice, multiple window, text editing environment for creating Marlais programs. Marlais is a language not unlike Dylan™, from Apple Computer.
Version 0.5.x now implements a subset of the infix syntax. See the Dylan Interim Reference Manual (DIRM) for a full description of this syntax. To obtain the DIRM, refer to the information at the end of this document."

AUTHOR:
mac port:
Patrick C. Beard
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c)1994-1995 by Patrick C. Beard

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.bdt.com/home/beard/
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/Marlais/
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Marlais/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Marlais/                                   

Old versions:
ftp://ftp.bdt.com/home/beard/                                                                   
ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/Marlais/                                                              
ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/src/Marlais/older-versions/                 
ftp://MacFTP.RZ.Uni-Augsburg.DE/pub/programming/                  
Info-Mac                                                                                        
UMich                                                                                             
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/              
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/others/dylan/impl/marlais/mac/
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/Marlais/older-versions/0.5/
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Marlais/older-versions/0.5/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Marlais/older-versions/0.5/
ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Dylan.Information/                   

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To: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>
Cc: marlais-authors@cis.ufl.edu
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 10:46:05 -0700
From: "Patrick C. Beard" <beard@cs.ucdavis.edu>

> I have a question about the name:
> What is the etymology of MARLAIS?

I don't rightly know.

Brent?

- Patrick

**
To: "Patrick C. Beard" <beard@cs.ucdavis.edu>
cc: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>,
        marlais-authors@cis.ufl.edu
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:50:00 EDT
From: "Joseph N. Wilson" <jnw@cis.ufl.edu>

Patrick, Brent, and Everyone:

In a previous message, "Patrick C. Beard" <beard@cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote
> > I have a question about the name:
> > What is the etymology of MARLAIS?
> 
> I don't rightly know.
> 
> Brent?

Brent has told me that Marlais is Dylan M. Thomas' middle name, which I believe, however, this appears to be a little-known fact.  Where did you discover this Brent?  Marlais is also the name of a small village in France.  I wonder if there is a connection.

Joe

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From: Brent Benson <bwb@concentra.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:51:49 -0400
To: jnw@cis.ufl.edu
Cc: beard@cs.ucdavis.edu, xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr,
        marlais-authors@cis.ufl.edu

I obtained this information from the small, paperback copy of the
American Heritage Dictionary that I keep on my shelf at work.  I'm not sure how Dylan Thomas came to have "Marlais" as his middle name.
In any case, it seemed a suitably obtuse name for a Dylan
implementation :-).

Brent

                                                 2. MINDY

Etymology:
MINDY = Mindy Is Not Dylan Yet (see #)

Pages:
http://legend.gwydion.cs.cmu.edu:8001/gwydion/mindy/index.html

                                              Mac Mindy

MAC NAME: MacMindy                                       

VERSION: 1.2                                 

README:
"MacMindy v1.2 is a port of CMU's Mindy compiler version 1.2 to the Macintosh. There are preliminary releases for PowerPC and 68K Macintoshes, and each consists of two drop-on applications:  "Mindy-Compiler" compiles dylan source code into a byte-code object file; "Mindy" links a byte-code file with the libraries it references, and then executes the program."

AUTHOR: 
mac port:
Patrick C. Beard
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1995 by Patrick C. Beard

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.bdt.com/home/beard/
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/Mindy/
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Mindy/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/Mindy/

#
Similar etymologies:
GNU = GNU's Not Unix
MINT = MINT Is Not TRAC (:The Language List) or Tos
MINCE =  MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs

                                                 3. THOMAS

Etymology: see *

MAC NAME: Thomas                                      

VERSION: 1.1                                  

README:
"Thomas is a compiler written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory.  Thomas compiles a language compatible with the language described in the book "Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic language" by Apple Computer Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992."

AUTHORS:
mac port:
Matt Birkholz 
Jim Miller 
Ron Weiss
Joel Bartlett 
Marc Feeley
Guillermo Rozas 
Ralph Swick
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1992 Digital Equipment Corporation

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/gambit-2.0/
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/Thomas/
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/Thomas/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/Thomas/
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/gambit/1.9/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/programming/languages/dylan/dylan/gambit/1.9/
ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Dylan.Information/Thomas.1.1_Gambit.2.0/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/others/dylan/impl/thomas/mac/ 
Info-Mac
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/languages/dylan/gambit/
ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/sunfish/scheme-repository/imp/gambit/

Note: 
Apple's Infinity Periodic Sequence of Symbolic Links:
ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/Thomas/gambit/Thomas/gambit/Thomas/gambit/Thomas/.......................... 

ftp://198.112.73.3/pub/dylan/gambit/Thomas/gambit/Thomas/gambit/Thomas/.......................... 

*
From: Brent Benson <bwb@concentra.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 07:16:54 -0400
To: xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr
Subject: Re: Thomas M. Dylan

# Two more questions:
# 1. The language names Dylan and Thomas are after Thomas M. Dylan (like Ada and  Haskell, after Ada Lovelace and Haskell Curry) ?
# I think that DYLAN = DYNamic LANguage.

You are correct---Dylan comes from DYnamic LANguage.  The names of the freely available Dylan implementations have developed out of word play with the word Dylan.

# 2. Who is Thomas M. Dylan ?

Dylan M. Thomas was a well-known Welsh poet.