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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 25 Apr 1993 18:22:41 MST
Date: 23 Apr 93 14:16:08 GMT
From: howland.reston.ans.net!agate!linus!progress!neil@gatech.edu (Neil Galarneau)
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Subject: Re: popularity of Icon
Message-Id: <1993Apr23.141608.25747@progress.com>
References: <9304220942.AA05692@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Status: R
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ruiter@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl writes:
[stuff deleted...]
>In a way, Icon hangs between freeware and shareware, since one needs the
>book in order to learn/use Icon. *Really* free languages usually offer
>documentation included in electronic format. This makes people frown
>when I tell them to buy the book. Of course having to buy a book in order
>to use an otherwise completely free language is entirely reasonable, but
>not all programmers are.
Actually, I think the presence of BOTH a user book and an implementation book
can help convince people that the language is for real and not some quick
hack.
>Jan de Ruiter
>ruiter@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
Neil
neil@progress.com