"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‚Ñ¢, 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."
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
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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.
"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."
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."
# 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.