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by agumonkey 3648 days ago
IIRC OpenDylan maintainer expressed regrets about the syntas a few times. An historical burden from some Apple decisions long ago.
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I still have Apple's Dylan book where it has Lisp-like syntax somewhere. The infix they came up with is ugly.

Dylan was supposed to be used for Apple's Newton handheld, but was too late and basically died in the 1990s. I'm no expert, but I recall it was basically a dumbed down Lisp with OO extensions and module support that was changed to a dumbed down Algol with OO extensions and module support.

I have the books for Harlequin Dylan, but the language never got traction.

It was basically an infix lisp with focus on hygiene (because it was basically a Lisp 1), and the possibility of sealing modules (making it impossible to alter / inherit from them ).

This IIRC; it's a long time ago...