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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 4 Sep 1994 18:31:11 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 01:12:54 GMT
From: Lexigen@world.std.com (Michael Sikillian)
Message-Id: <CvMu1J.MFo@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cv9Jvr.AC4@world.std.com>, <1994Sep3.152848.12946@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Icon - still alive??
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Speaking of your PhD, do you know Frank Lewis? He was working on
a doctorate in Persian at UChicago.
Richard L. Goerwitz (goer@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Michael Sikillian wrote (seems like years ago :-)):
: >I have been writing some cataloguing and index applications in a PC
: >database program. I know icon has been out there for a while and
: >have an intuition that it probably could do this easier than the db.
: >Is icon a viable language, or just some grand experiment?
: >Is it a fringe type thing with a cult following, or a real tool?
: Well, at several people's recommendation I just took a look at the
: new C calling interface, loadfunc. This is a good solution to a prob-
: lem that has made C <-> Icon interchange inconvenient at best.
: To answer your question, I ran into Icon perhaps seven years ago or
: so, when looking for a language with good string processing facili-
: ties and a general power and economy of expression. I fell in love
: with the language. I still use it for nearly all of my daily work,
: except when speed is absolutely critical, or when some facility is
: simply not available. I've done some fairly large-scale projects
: with Icon. And even some real whoppers.
: I don't see how I could have done the research that led up to my
: PhD (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) without Icon - at least
: in the time frame that I did.
: --
: -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
: goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer