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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 31 Aug 1994 07:18:54 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 06:36:27 GMT
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Message-Id: <1994Aug31.063627.13092@netlabs.com>
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
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> ruiter@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl (Jan-Peter de Ruiter) writes:
: Also, look at the amount of supported platforms. What cult-language
: is supported for Dos, Mac, Unix, OS/2, Windows, VMS, and more?
Um, Perl is on all those platforms. And on the Amiga I'm typing on.
I suspect the same is true for REXX, and it's pretty close to true for
Tcl and Python. I'll bet you can find Lisp on all those machines
too, and if that isn't a cult language, I don't know what is...
Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com