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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id gALG45A12672
for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:04:05 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:57:09 +0100
From: Atle <trollet@skynet.be>
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Subject: Re: I know why Icon isn't popular.
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Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> In the Unix world, the /lack/ of all of those things is generally
> considered a /benefit/, and if those technologies were added to Icon,
> that would almost certainly make it look /less attractive/ to the very
> sorts of people that would be more likely to consider Icon than the
> "Windows flunkies."
I think this not only goes in the Unix world, it goes in the world of
programmers in general.
This preference is generally what separates 'programmers' from 'users'.
I don't even think it is limited to programming, the whole thing started
at the famous model railroad club where most preferrred to 'play with
the trains' but some preferred to stay under the board and 'play with
the wiring'.
Some like to be behind the wheel, others under the hood.
If Icon became an 'IDE' language, it might initially attract some
programmers, but the kind of programmers that you can find in the Visual
Basic or Visual this-and-that world probably would not come to grips
with such a powerful language anyway ...
... those were my to lira ...
Atle