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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 1994 09:08:20 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 14:19:28 GMT
From: dkuhlman@netcom.com (G. David Kuhlman)
Message-Id: <dkuhlmanCvAvsG.AwD@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Michael Sikillian (Lexigen@world.std.com) wrote:
: I have been writing some cataloguing and index applications in a PC
: database program. I know icon has been out there for a while and
: have an intuition that it probably could do this easier than the db.
: Is icon a viable language, or just some grand experiment?
: Is it a fringe type thing with a cult following, or a real tool?
I use it under OS/2. I write mostly code generators.
Compiling Icon programs is fast and the Icon language is powerful.
I like it.
I'm still receiving periodic source code updates (source code for
the implementation of Icon itself); last one was dated 6/10/94.
Seems alive and well to me.
You can also subscribe to a newsletter. Send email to
icon-project@cs.arizona.edu.
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Dave Kuhlman Reify, Redwood City, CA
Internet: dkuhlman@netcom.com
Compuserve: 72470,116
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