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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 2 May 1993 06:17:30 MST
Date: 27 Apr 93 22:23:18 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!ersys!ab@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Allan Brockman)
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Subject: icon popularity
Message-Id: <J2Ro3B1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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i have tried to introduce icon to 4 peaple.
one read the book and agrees whith me that it is well writen and that
the language is excelent... so long ase you are only working whith text.
one said i can't bebouthered to learn a new language.
two said great language so simple so clean so powerfull ... to bad there
are no graphic ruotiens...
4/5 of the peapkle i know who know of icon have expresed a desire for
some graphic ability in the language.
ya ya i know ... you could always have icon generate postscript files
but then why not just learn and use postscript? ( or ray-trace or ect. )
perhaps a companion language to icon ( call it scribe ) that has minimal
string manipulation words but describes sound and graphic well.
iff i could tell my friends who say 'it has no graphic' that scribe HAS
graphic and its ase clear and powerfull as icon is whith text AND that
you can -easaly- call one from the other...then i think the popularity of
icon would increase (espechaly amonst new users).
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Allan Brockman ab@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca