Reimport dylan-compiler as gwydion-dylan and update to version 2.4.0

Gwydion Dylan 2.4.0 (2004-10-23)

  Because the bulk of our recent development effort has been put into
  the 2.5 development branch, work on this branch has focused on
  stabilization in the form of bug and compatibility fixes.  Changes
  include improvements in the robustness of the melange tool, and an
  update of the Macintosh CodeWarrior plugin.

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+Dylan is an object-oriented, dynamic, infix, garbage-collected
+programming language with support for multiple inheritence, multiple
+dispatch (an advanced form of polymorphism), typed and untyped
+variables, closures and exceptions.  Dylan also supports pattern-based
+hygenic macros.  These allow you to define new control constructs and
+fully integrate them with the language.
+
+Dylan (theoretically) combines the performance of C or C++ with the
+rapid development of Perl and the expressiveness of LISP.  It looks
+similar to C or Pascal, so experienced programmers can learn to write
+simple programs quickly.
+
+Gwydion Dylan provides two implementations of the Dylan programming
+language:  Mindy and d2c.  Mindy is bytecode compiler and interpreter,
+and d2c is a Dylan-to-C compiler.  Mindy compiles programs quickly,
+but the resulting executables run slowly.  On the other hand, d2c
+compiles programs slowly, but they run quickly.
+
+Gwydion Dylan was originally written by the Gwydion Group at CMU as
+part of a research project studying advanced hypercode development
+environments.  It is now maintained by a group of volunteers.