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ernobe <ernobe@msn.com> wrote:
>I found Icon on the Web after
>nearly a year of searching for and trying several languages, particularly Forth
>and Euphoria.
A year and a bit ago, I first encountered Icon.
I abandoned it in favour of Euphoria because:
No easy examples of GUI programming
No printer/print preview support
I will admit I have learnt alot in the last year from Euphoria, maybe
enough to now understand some things I did not last year.
Maybe/hopefully someone can point me to something I may or may not
have already read which will now make sense to get me to start using
what I know in my heart is the best language I have ever seen.
Pete
>Perhaps part of it is intentional in order not
>to share information that may be used maliciously.
Highly unlikely. Icon/Euphoria are languages which protect the machine
from you, and you from the machine as much as reasonable, which is an
honourable goal. For truly malicious stuff you need C or assembly
anyway. There is no intent to hide "dirty tricks" in these languages;
the idea is that you simply do not need such to get your program to
work the way you want it to.