Dylan Programming Guide (1996) now in PDF, ePub, updated HTML

"It's called Dylan because it's so cool that nobody understands it." -- a manager in the Newton Group<p>[Kind of tounge-in-cheek; I didn't see that it was particularly difficult to grok]<p>The Newton was going to be programmed in Dylan from the metal on up. The week that it was decided to write it all in C++, there were a lot of glum ex-Dylan programmers wandering the halls, clutching copies of the C++ ARM.

Maybe I had a pretty weird upbringing, but the design of Dylan is one of a rather small set of things that gives me a particular kind of wholesome, full-body happiness, and a feeling of real warmth, and like somebody out there truly understands me.<p>I think it's something like what they call "love." But no -- it's like my <i>mind</i> is getting hard.

Functions as first-class values, lexically-scoped closures, map, curry...objects, methods, classes &#38; class inheritance...immutable objects that can have their pointers optimized-away by the compiler.<p>This sounds ahead of its day for a language intended for industry.

Here is the original Dylan documentation from 1992 .. It has the s-expression syntax: <a href="http://moo.mx/stuff/dylan/contents.html" rel="nofollow">http://moo.mx/stuff/dylan/contents.html</a>

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