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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 2 Sep 1994 11:44:26 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 2 Sep 1994 10:17:16 -0700
From: tanksley@coyote.csusm.edu (Billy Tanksley)
Message-Id: <347mms$5cm@coyote.csusm.edu>
Organization: California State University San Marcos
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>, <33t025$ba5@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>, <1994Aug31.063627.13092@netlabs.com>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <1994Aug31.063627.13092@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
>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...
You completely missed the most widespread cult language-- Forth. (A cult
language is one where all the users are brainwashed, right? That's
Forth.) Forth happens EVERYWHERE, from embedded controllers to windoze NT.
>Larry Wall
-Billy
Paladin (for PC Geos)
: test ( -- )
forth you love if honk
else null
then
emit
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