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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 24 May 1994 15:03:54 MST
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From: brady@mercury.interpath.net (Donald C Brady - Comintel Inc)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Icon in May94 BYTE Magazine -- what else & Windows?
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Date: 1 May 94 04:29:32 GMT
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I also read the Byte article. I was very interested in it as I am a heavy
user of Catspaw Spitbol/386, which is of course a SNOBOL4.
When I last looked at Icon, I concluded SNOBOL4/ SPITBOL was still the
better choice, because high-quality implementations were readily
available. Icon seemed immature and less-widely used.
Is this still the case? Or is Icon now starting to replace SNOBOL4?
I currently run WIndows/NT mainly, but alos have UNIXWARE, OS/2,
NExtStep.
Is the NT version going to come out with the Windows version or are
they separate?
What version of UNIX is best now for running or trying out Icon?
Or OS/2?
Thanks.