From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz)
Subject: Re: Dylan info
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:15:09 GMT

In article <MISAWA.93Jan12115322@physics16.berkeley.edu> misawa@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
>	FAQ of the year: Where can I get/find information on Dylan ?

The following is from the Lisp FAQ posting. Send corrections/changes
to lisp-faq@think.com.

--mark

Subject: [4-6] What is Dylan?

Dylan is a new object-oriented dynamic language (oodl), based on Scheme, CLOS,
and Smalltalk.  The purpose of the language is to retain the benefits of oodls
and also allow efficient application delivery.  The design stressed keeping
Dylan small and consistent, while allowing a high degree of expressiveness. A
manual/specification for the language is available from Apple Computer.  Send
email to dylan-manual-request@cambridge.apple.com or write to Apple Computer, 1
Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142.  Include your complete address and also a
phone number (the phone number is especially important for anyone outside the
US). Comments on Dylan can be sent to the internet mail address
dylan-comments@cambridge.apple.com. 

The mailing list info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com is for any and all
discussions of Dylan, including language design issues, implementation
issues, marketing issues, syntax issues, etc. The mailing list
announce-dylan@cambridge.apple.com is for major announcements about
Dylan, such as the availability of new implementations, new versions
of the manual, etc.  This mailing list should be *much* lower volume
than info-dylan.  Everything sent to this list is also sent to
info-dylan.  The mailing list dylan-builders@cambridge.apple.com is
for people who are working on Dylan implementations. (To be added to
dylan-builders, send a note describing your implementation plans to
dylan-builders-request.) The newsgroup comp.lang.dylan will be
gatewayed to the info-dylan mailing list. 

Send mail to the -request version of the list to be added to it.

Apple hasn't announced plans to release Dylan as a product.  

The directory cambridge.apple.com:pub/dylan contains some documents
pertaining to Dylan, including a FAQ list.

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Thomas is a compiler for a language that is compatible with the
language described in the book "Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic
language" by Apple Computer Eastern Research and Technology, April
1992. Thomas was written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge
Research Laboratory. Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM) and was built with no
direct input, aid, assistance or discussion with Apple.

Thomas is available to the public by anonymous ftp at
       crl.dec.com:pub/DEC/Thomas
       gatekeeper.pa.dec.com:pub/DEC/Thomas
       altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/Thomas

The Thomas system is written in Scheme and runs under MIT's CScheme,
DEC's Scheme->C, and Marc Feeley's Gambit.  It can run on a wide range
of machines including the Macintosh, PC compatibles, Vax, MIPS, Alpha,
and 680x0.  Thomas generates IEEE compatible Scheme code.

DEC CRL's goals in building Thomas were to learn about Dylan by
building an implementation, and to build a system they could use to
write small Dylan programs. As such, Thomas has no optimizations of
any kind and does not perform well. 

The original development team consisted of:
          Matt Birkholz (Birkholz@crl.dec.com)
          Jim Miller (JMiller@crl.dec.com)
          Ron Weiss (RWeiss@crl.dec.com)
In addition, Joel Bartlett (Bartlett@wrl.dec.com), Marc Feeley
(Feeley@iro.umontreal.ca), Guillermo Rozas (Jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu)
and Ralph Swick (Swick@crl.dec.com) contributed time and energy to the
initial release.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.dylan