[pro] The Best Examples of "Code is Data"

Mark Haniford markhaniford at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 16:12:37 UTC 2010


Thanks for the clarification Tom.  I guess I inferred wrong from the
timing of things.  I guess my bitterness of Objective-C being the
lingua franca of  Apple operating systems app development instead of
Dylan still shows.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Tom Emerson <tremerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Haniford <markhaniford at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apple's Dylan IDE probably would
>> have that stuff 10-12 years ago, but NeXT came around and the rest is
>> history.
>
> The demise of Dylan had nothing to do with NeXT. While it's true that
> the Apple Cambridge office received its coup de grâce when the NeXT
> acquisition occurred (I was there and laid off because of it) Dylan
> was unfortunately gone by then.
>
>    -tree
>
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