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the NetBSD Packages Collection. Dylan is an object-oriented, dynamic, infix, garbage-collected programming language with support for multiple inheritence, multiple dispatch (an advanced form of polymorphism), typed and untyped variables, closures and exceptions. Dylan also supports pattern-based hygenic macros. These allow you to define new control constructs and fully integrate them with the language. Dylan (theoretically) combines the performance of C or C++ with the rapid development of Perl and the expressiveness of LISP. It looks similar to C or Pascal, so experienced programmers can learn to write simple programs quickly. Gwydion Dylan provides two implementations of the Dylan programming language: Mindy and d2c. Mindy is bytecode compiler and interpreter, and d2c is a Dylan-to-C compiler. Mindy compiles programs quickly, but the resulting executables run slowly. On the other hand, d2c compiles programs slowly, but they run quickly. This package contains mindy. Gwydion Dylan was originally written by the Gwydion Group at CMU as part of a research project studying advanced hypercode development environments. It is now maintained by a group of volunteers. For just now, the only supported platform is NetBSD/i386, but they are fairly easy to add, so all contributions gratefully received.
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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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