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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 1994 11:29:14 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 29 Aug 1994 15:49:25 GMT
From: ruiter@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl (Jan-Peter de Ruiter)
Message-Id: <33t025$ba5@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
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?
It is, in my humble opinion, a real tool. I do all data analyses
and text processing with Icon programs, and I get an instant
nightmare if I even consider writing these programs in other
languages. Also, I have made simulation model prototypes in Icon.
If I need *really* high performance, I often generate C with Icon
programs. I can then change the neat Icon code and still generate
dirty (fast) C code without having to maintain the C code itself.
Icon is also used a lot in language research. The well known CELEX
linguistic database was built up using Icon programs, for instance.
Also, look at the amount of supported platforms. What cult-language
is supported for Dos, Mac, Unix, OS/2, Windows, VMS, and more?
So, to wrap up, I think you should seriously consider seeing it
as a real tool.
Jan