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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 31 Aug 1994 07:19:16 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 31 Aug 1994 08:56:04 GMT
From: ruiter@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl (Jan-Peter de Ruiter)
Message-Id: <341gj4$kte@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>, <33t025$ba5@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>, <1994Aug31.063627.13092@netlabs.com>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com) wrote:
: 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
Well, apart from Perl, of course, I wouldn't say any of the languages
you mentioned is a true "cult language". ;-)
Jan