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From: Art Eschenlauer <art.eschenlauer@sufsys.com>
To: "'icon-group@CS.Arizona.EDU '" <icon-group@cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: RE: Why Perl?
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:54:33 -0600
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I presume that it is because people can do what they need to do with Perl
and don't need to resort to the power of Icon.
Do you think that the availability and routine application of objects by
Perl users (versus what I have seen to be infrequent mention of Idol) might
account for some of the obscurity, i.e., people may judge Perl to be an
object-oriented scripting language (like Python) and may (mistakenly) judge
Icon to be a non-object-oriented, compiled language? In other words, do you
think that they see Icon as being obsolete?
Do you think that the fact that O'Reilly is a champion of Perl and has no
publications on Icon may contribute to Icon's "obscurity"?
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank J. Lhota
To: icon-group@CS.Arizona.EDU
Sent: 11/6/00 12:44 PM
Subject: Why Perl?
I have used Icon for over a decade. Recently, I went through the Perl
tutorial. For the most part, I am amazed that Perl has become the
dominant
language for text processing. About the only area where Perl could be
considered to Icon is in report generation, and even this advantage
could be
obtained in Icon with the appropriate library. Why, then, has Perl
become so
popular while Icon remains (relatively) obscure?