Re: Relationship of Lisp and Dylan

From: Bruce Hoult (bruce_at_hoult.org)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:03:39 +1300

In article <slrnbrqsb0.prj.jsnell@melkinpaasi.cs.Helsinki.FI>,
 jsnell@iki.fi (Juho Snellman) wrote:

> I've been under the impression that Apple intended to deploy
> applications written in Dylan on the Newton, not just on Macs. (It
> might even have been the NewtonOS itself, not just applications.) The
> design space for any implementation targeting an early-90s PDA is
> going to be pretty constrained... It seems a bit doubtful (I'd love to
> be corrected on this) that they could've fit a full CL in there.

An ex-Apple employee who worked on it told me that they did the ARM code
generator, but they didn't manage to get the generated code small enough
to fit in time.

-- Bruce

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