Programming language · 1992
Dylan
Multi-paradigm programming language with support for functional and object-oriented programming.
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Quick Facts
- Developer
- Apple Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University
- First released
- 1992
- Typing
- dynamic
- Website
- opendylan.org
About Dylan
Dylan is a multi-paradigm programming language with support for functional and object-oriented programming. It is a dynamically typed language. It supports object-oriented and functional programming.
Dylan first appeared in 1992. Development is led by Apple Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University.
How Dylan is implemented
In the Language Lineage dataset, its runtime is implemented in C.
Dylan in the language family tree
Dylan drew on ideas from Lisp, Common Lisp Object System, and Common Lisp and went on to influence Python.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
- Dylan on Wikidata (Q1268744)
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