A few things about Dylan

Dylan is an object-oriented dynamic language, originally designed by Apple Computer. For details on the language, see the Dylan Reference Manual by Andrew Shalit, an older version of which is available online.

Here are a few resources I've contributed for people interested in Dylan:

• Linearizations are used by languages like Dylan to resolve conflicts introduced by multiple inheritance. Several of us working on Dylan surveyed the mechanisms available, constructed two new ones, and wrote a paper about that topic. (Also available are implemtations of several linearizations.)
• The grammar for Dylan, as presented in the reference manual, has ambiguities. I constructed a conflict-free version of it, suitable for use with YACC.
• A while ago, I wrote the beginnings of a tutorial for Dylan, aimed at programmers who already know Pascal or other procedural languages. It's incomplete -- I only wrote the first three sections of an intended dozen-- but my attention has wandered and I'll probably not write any more on the topic.