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Dylan is an object-oriented, dynamic, infix, garbage-collected
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programming language with support for multiple inheritence, multiple
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dispatch (an advanced form of polymorphism), typed and untyped
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variables, closures and exceptions. Dylan also supports pattern-based
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hygenic macros. These allow you to define new control constructs and
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fully integrate them with the language.
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Dylan (theoretically) combines the performance of C or C++ with the
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rapid development of Perl and the expressiveness of LISP. It looks
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similar to C or Pascal, so experienced programmers can learn to write
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simple programs quickly.
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Gwydion Dylan provides two implementations of the Dylan programming
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language: Mindy and d2c. Mindy is bytecode compiler and interpreter,
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and d2c is a Dylan-to-C compiler. Mindy compiles programs quickly,
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but the resulting executables run slowly. On the other hand, d2c
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compiles programs slowly, but they run quickly.
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Gwydion Dylan was originally written by the Gwydion Group at CMU as
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part of a research project studying advanced hypercode development
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environments. It is now maintained by a group of volunteers.
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