Re:Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?
by mikelevins on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:57AM
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I just noticed that a sibling comment has a link to Rainer Joswig's archive of the Dylan book (Dylan, an Object Oriented Dynamic Language, the book I referred to above).
Here's the link again for reference in context:
http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/
I should have known Rainer would have it.
Even better: he's also archived the design notes:
This book describes an early version of Dylan that was very close to Ralph:
It wasn't exactly the same. Ralph had some extensions that weren't part of the language described in the book. For example, it had a class for representing blocks of memory allocated outside the Dylan heap (that is, "foreign" memory).It used to be possible to find a copy of the book online, but I didn't turn up anything with a quick search.
I think Bauhaus sources still exist somewhere, but I don't know how you'd get them. I asked Apple about releasing them some years ago and they ignored the question.
A few years later I asked whether they were still in Apple's software library, and the person I asked--who, I would have thought, should know about it--didn't seem to have any idea what I was talking about. Maybe they ditched the software library.
Once upon a time there were videos of some of the demos that various folks did of pre-release Newton features. Maybe some of those still exist somewhere; I don't know.