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Dylan Dormant

Dylan
KindProgramming language
Appeared1992
StatusDormant
CreatorApple / CMU / Harlequin
FamilyLisp
Sourceopendylan.org ↗

'DYnamic LANguage' — Apple, CMU, and Harlequin's Lisp-for-the-mainstream, killed by the Newton's failure and Java's arrival. Open Dylan still compiles it.

Created by Apple Computer

Apple's Dylan (1992) — 'DYnamic LANguage' — was Lisp disguised as ALGOL: multiple dispatch, optional typing, macros, designed for the Newton.\n\nApple cancelled it; Harlequin/CMU carried it as Open Dylan. Its design — Lisp without parens — remains the road not taken.

Sources

  1. opendylan.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)