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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 2 Sep 1994 11:43:59 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 2 Sep 1994 10:12:19 -0700
From: tanksley@coyote.csusm.edu (Billy Tanksley)
Message-Id: <347mdj$hmq@coyote.csusm.edu>
Organization: California State University San Marcos
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <33t025$ba5@highway.leidenuniv.nl>, <33tacj$pen@ios.com>, <1994Aug30.140940.5002@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <1994Aug30.140940.5002@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>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.
Well, I agree with your fear of platform-specifisity, but _standard_
extensions are needed. Just look at Forth-- it's been around for a long
time, and is difficult entirely because of its lack of standard
features. Every time a Forth programmer needs a feature, he/she writes
it himself, completely differently than another would have.
It's a pain-- don't saddle yourselves with those difficulties.
-Billy
Paladin (for PC-Geos)