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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 1993 04:50:55 MST
Date: 23 Apr 93 16:57:22 GMT
From: digex.com!digex.com!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net (Pat)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA
Subject: Re: runtime debugger
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In article <1993Apr23.150030.11124@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>"Clint Jeffery" <cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu> writes:
|>
|does not cater to the introductory CS course regimen. Icon has, as its
|natural constituency, people interested in AI, NLP, text, translation,
|and general nonnumeric computing. Intro CS courses are not taught, in
|
|The Icon Project members are, interestingly, more capable in nonnumeric
|matters than most CS researchers I've met. Which leads me to wonder: Why
|pretend any longer that Icon is standard CS fare? Its major user-accessible
|advances have largely been in interface design and in solving problems that
|require heuristic methods, rather than algorithmic ones. Icon really isn't
|(from a user's standpoint) a good, standard CS language, except for those
|interested in language design and theory.
|
|Icon is a *great* language, and I hope it won't go away. Makes life easier
|for a large range of problems. It's just that this range of problems lies
|more in my area, I think, than it does in the CS fold. Clint: Why not take
|advantage of Icon's uniqueness, and start showing up a Humanities computing
|conferences, interface design conventions, etc. :-) 1/2 ?
|
My question, is? WHat really cool things have been done in ICON?
and how much code did it take to implement them?
pat