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		dasmoth on Aug 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin' in the Wind (1992... Thanks. I've never really been clear on the relationship between Harlequin and Apple on Dylan stuff -- were they totally separate impls?

_19qg on Aug 27, 2017 [–]

Yes, completely different.

Apple's Dylan implementation was written in Macintosh Common Lisp.

Harlequin started with a LispWorks-based implementation and then had an all-in-Dylan implementation.

This is the old Common Lisp / LispWorks implementation of Dylan from Harlequin:

https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/tree/5f9225d246d771c...

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