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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g97EmBs18991
for icon-group-addresses; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:48:11 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:40:20 -0700
From: Mark Kot <kot@hyak.amath.washington.edu>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: icon
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:20:34AM -0700, Sean L. Palmer wrote:
> Is this language completely dead?
>
> Is anyone using it for anything?
>
> Sean
>
>
Icon is my main andy most certainly my favorite
programming language. (I used to program in Fortran
and then in C.) Some of my most enjoyable Icon pro-
grams from the last year or two include:
(1) ibird
Ibird is a bird information program that provides
easy access to photographs, songs, range maps,
species accounts, and taxonomic information for
the birds of North America.
(2) iref
Iref is a suite of programs to handle biblio-
graphic information. I use these programs as cus-
tomized or enhanced replacements for refer,
addbib, and other troff/groff programs.
(3) tric
Tric an icon troff graphics preprocessor that I
use as a replacement for grap. This one was fun.
tric extracts and runs icon programs that I embed
in my troff/groff documents. The programs use a
library module to generate the pic graphics com-
mands that troff/groff understands. Tric then
embeds these pic commands back into the document
and pipes the output to groff.
(4) iconcise
Iconcise is a program to look for verbose or trite
phrases in my writing
(5) izipf
Izipf is a suite of programs that I wrote to ana-
lyze the diversity of postings to newsgroups.
Some of the programs analyze header information
from archived newsgroups. Other programs simulate
the growth and evolution of newsgroups using sim-
ple stochastic processes. (The resulting analyses
can be seen in an article, ``Zipf's law and the
diversity of biology newsgroups'', that will be
coming out in the journal Scientometrics early in
2003).
Mark Kot