History of the Dylan programming language

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Annoucements

Sep. 1992: Andrew L. M. Shalit as a member of the Apple Cambridge Research Labortory annouces mailing lists for discussions specific to the Dylan programming language.

June 1994: Robert Stockton as a member of the http://www.cs.cmu.edu annouces an online browsable version of the new Interim Reference Manual.

1994 at SFA Atlanta: "Ike Nassi used to run Apple's Advanced Technology group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Dylan originated. Now vice president of Apple's Development Products group, Nassi has made one of his goals the establishment of OODLs (object oriented dynamic languages) as a mainstream programming paradigm. He also stated that Dylan was "in use at Apple today". Andrew Shalitt stated that Dylan has moved into product development. It was hinted that third parties were at work on development environments; nothing specific was said about what such an environment might look like. As you may have heard, Dylan has a new infix syntax. Syntax surveys were distributed at the conference to help the language designers finalize their decisions. Andrew's presentation included a number of examples of Dylan code." Quoted from: http://www.mactech.com/articles/frameworks/8_3/1994_Conference_Report.html

Oct. 1995: Thanks and farewell from Cambridge. "As most of you know by now from press reports and rumors, the Cambridge Dylan project is being shut down and the team laid off this week. ... Scott Falhman's project at CMU deserves your financial support. ... " Carl Schwarcz, Near Nearly Ex-Director, Cambridge Engineering.

Dec. 1995: Russ Daniels, the interim Apple engineering manager for Dylan in Cupertino, announces: Digitool, Inc. will port Apple's Dylan Technology Release to PowerPC MCL.

Aug. 1996: Apple ships PowerPC native Dylan (ported by Digitool). Quoted from: http://www.digitool.com/press.html

Sep. 1998: Scott E. Fahlman, the leader of Dylan Project at cs.cmu.edu annouces Dylan is now completely in Harlequin's hands. "In fact, if not in theory, Dylan is now completely in Harlequin's hands. Apple is no longer involved with Dylan, nor is the CMU Gwydion project. Some dedicated volunteers are working to improve the Gwydion version, and there may still be a couple of one-person implementation efforts, but whatever Harlequin does will define what Dylan is. Harlequin wants Dylan to succeed, and presumably they will do the things that they think are most important for Dylan's acceptance."