From: Chris Page
Subject: Re: Books on Dylan
Date: 
Message-ID: <AE5609D1-37059@205.149.164.180>
> just browsing around in the Web, I found a quite interesting pointer to
> a forthcoming publication on Dylan.

I picked up a copy of Dylan Programming (ISBN: 0-201-47976-1) at Object
World West. It's a nice companion to the TR documentation. It's more of a
tutorial, and it compares various language features with C++, Java, and
SmallTalk, which I found very informative.

It also provides rationales for some language features, and discusses some
"programming style" issues, such as how to structure modules within a
library.

I highly recommend it.

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From: Ben Greenfield
Subject: Re: Books on Dylan
Date: 
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chris 
i also enjoy the book dylan programming i'm using apple dylan tr and 
was curious if you were also. 

if you were i was curious how you manuvered around the lack of 
function format-out.

thanks 

ben
From: Chris Page
Subject: Re: Books on Dylan
Date: 
Message-ID: <AE593998-ABDE2@205.149.164.180>
Ben Greenfield <···@panix.com> wrote:
> i also enjoy the book dylan programming i'm using apple dylan tr and 
> was curious if you were also. 
> 
> if you were i was curious how you manuvered around the lack of 
> function format-out.

I have been using the Apple Dylan TR, but I have not yet attempted
following the tutorial using it. Besides the lack of format-out(), I have
encountered problems with things like "constant" slot declarations
(apparently) not being supported correctly, so I haven't attempted to
implement the tutorial yet.

[I don't know whether we should continue this thread on comp.lang.lisp, so
if this goes on, let's consider limiting it to comp.lang.dylan --Chris]

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