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diff --git a/lang/dylan/pkg-descr b/lang/dylan/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 9985fd3c5991..000000000000 --- a/lang/dylan/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -CMU Gwydion project's implementation of the Dylan programming language. -Dylan is an object-oriented language with many powerful features, including -automatic memory management (garbage collection), generic functions (also -known as multiple dispatch or multi-methods), multiple inheritance, a -powerful and safe macro facility for extending the language's syntax, and a -powerful class and function library. Though it is a DYnamic LANguage, it -includes facilities for making compiled programs more efficient than many -other dynamic languages. - -Gwydion Dylan actually contains two implementations of the language. -One, called Mindy (Mindy Is Not Dylan Yet), is a bytecode compiler and -interpreter that implements most of the language except for the macro -facility. The other, d2c, is a compiler for the full language that -uses C as its target "assembly language". The d2c compiler was -written in Dylan and bootstrapped using Mindy. - -A copy of the d2c compiler binary is required by the port to -bootstrap the entire system, which can often take quite a bit of time. - -For more information about Gwydion Dylan, see the Gwydion Dylan maintainers -WWW: http://www.gwydiondylan.org/ |