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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:34:54 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 26 Jan 95 15:46:33 GMT
From: gvw@cs.toronto.edu (Greg Wilson)
Message-Id: <1995Jan26.104632.5830@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: CS Lab, University of Toronto
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Icon as scripting language?
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Hello. I'm trying to select a scripting language for use by
scientists and engineers. The applications I have in mind are the
kind of thing I used to write awk scripts to do --- pulling strings
out of files, a simple "du"-like tool that would report the number and
size of .o files in a directory tree, and so on. I would like to know:
* do people use Icon to do this?
* does Icon have a rich interface with the O/S (something better than
firing off shell commands as strings, and somehow catching the output)?
* can anyone make an informed comparison of Icon and (for example) Perl
or Python?
* does Icon contain GUI-building facilities (e.g. a Tk interface)?
I'd be grateful if you could respond by direct email to
gvw@cs.toronto.edu, as I'm not a regular reader of this group.
Thanks for your help; I look forward to hearing from you.
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Gregory V. Wilson gvw@cs.toronto.edu
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