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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 30 Aug 1994 08:23:17 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 14:09:40 GMT
From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Message-Id: <1994Aug30.140940.5002@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Chicago
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>, <33t025$ba5@highway.leidenuniv.nl>, <33tacj$pen@ios.com>
Reply-To: goer@midway.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <33tacj$pen@ios.com> nmw@ios.com (Nick Williams) writes:
>
>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...)
Just yet?
That's funny. I feel quite the opposite. I dread the kitchen sink
mentality - turning Icon into a heap of platform-specific extensions
geared for things that C and PERL already do much better.
Fight feeping creaturism!
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer