Intent to package: dylan
dylan: CMU Gwydion project interpreter and compiler for the Dylan
language
This is a port of the CMU Gwydion project's implementation of the Dylan
programming language. Dylan is an object-oriented language with many
powerful features, including automatic memory management (garbage
collection), generic functions (also known as multiple dispatch or
multi-methods), multiple inheritance, a powerful and safe macro facility
for extending the language's syntax, and a powerful class and function
library. Though it is a DYnamic LANguage, it includes facilities for
making compiled programs more efficient than many other dynamic
languages.
The Dylan language was originally developed by Apple, but the project
was dropped just as the language definition was being finished and
before a production-quality compiler was complete. The Gwydion project
and Harlequin have continued use and development of the language.
Gwydion Dylan actually contains two implementations of the language.
One, called Mindy (Mindy Is Not Dylan Yet), is a bytecode compiler and
interpreter that implements most of the language except for the macro
facility. The other, d2c, is a compiler for the full language that uses
C as its target "assembly language". The d2c compiler was written in
Dylan and bootstrapped using Mindy.
For more information about Gwydion Dylan, see the Gwydion Dylan
maintainers
WWW: http://www.gwydiondylan.org/
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