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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 1994 12:18:02 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 29 Aug 1994 14:45:39 -0400
From: nmw@ios.com (Nick Williams)
Message-Id: <33tacj$pen@ios.com>
Organization: Internet Online Services
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>, <33t025$ba5@highway.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <33t025$ba5@highway.leidenuniv.nl>,
Jan-Peter de Ruiter <ruiter@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote:
>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.
Yes, and I should correct my previous statement: I use it for small
tasks because I don't have lots of data to analyse, but do some bit of
systems programming, for which Icon is not suited very well just yet...
(One of my dreams is to write an httpd in Icon...)
>Also, look at the amount of supported platforms. What cult-language
>is supported for Dos, Mac, Unix, OS/2, Windows, VMS, and more?
This, along with its graphics libraries, and its language features
(backtracking, generators and such) is what makes Icon such a great
language. It'll only get better.
>Jan
Nick