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News

C3 superclass linearization 2012-01-25

We implemented the C3 superclass linearization algorithm and enabled it by default. This is more intuitive and will allow for further performance improvements.

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Dswank - emacs and DIME 2011-12-12

We developed DIME, the Dylan interaction mode for emacs, based on SLIME. Now, you can browse the class hierarchy, get argument lists, locate definitions, compile, view warnings and more, all from within emacs!

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New release: 2011.1 2011-12-10

We just released Open Dylan 2011.1. This release is our first since moving to GitHub and relicensing under a more liberal license. It brings many bugfixes, inmproved platform support and new features.

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New Documentation 2011-11-22

We’re revitalizing our documentation and moving to a new publishing system. We’ll soon be able to provide our documentation in PDF and ePub as well as HTML, with it looking much better and being more maintainable than in the past.

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Welcome to the New Website! 2011-11-22

As part of recharging Open Dylan development, we’ve re-done the website and cleaned up a lot of the old, out-dated material here.

If you’re looking for some of the old material, it can be found over at http://old.opendylan.org/.

Articles

Dylan Macro System by Dustin Voss.

This article holds hard-won knowledge about how the Dylan macro system works and how to work around some of the gotchas that may catch a macro writer.

Procedural Dylan by Paul Haahr.

This essay explores Dylan from the perspective of a programmer used to traditional procedural languages, such as Pascal or C.