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- From: Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: Newton
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.081600.192@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:16:00 GMT
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- In article <1du471INN3ac@eagle.natinst.com> Russell Davoli,
- davoli@natinst.com writes:
- >In a related note, has anyone heard anything more than hype about Dylan?
- >Seems like this has been kept really quiet, except to say it's the cool
- new
- >thing in programming languages.
-
- When it was first announced, free copies of the manual were available from
- Apple. I asked for one (though I've forgotten the address). It's a simple
- variant on Scheme. Maybe someone who knows both languagges could fill in
- the differences (though I'm not sure this is the right group to discuss
- a language).
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
-