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000023_icon-group-sender _Wed May 24 08:43:46 1995.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 24 May 1995 07:04:13 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 24 May 1995 08:43:46 -0400
From: jwalsh@nova.umuc.edu (thirtysomething)
Message-Id: <3pv9m2$n57@nova.umuc.edu>
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3p9g5g$4l2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, <3pc58h$htb@news.computek.net>, <3puepa$86k@agate.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: icon notes [Re: Is there such a language...]
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <3pc58h$htb@news.computek.net>, <gep2@computek.net> wrote:
+I can come in after another consultant, and often do a project in two days that
+the other guy has said will take him one or two months... even if I charged two or
+three times as much for my time as he does, I can still solve the client's problem for
+less money, and get the solution to him sooner. And when a client is paying for a
+programmer by the day, I've NEVER YET had a client insist that I write the thing in
+C or something more common, instead of SNOBOL4+.
I agree that Icon can run circles around C and similar languages. And I'm
all for working smarter and charging higher rates for my time. :-)
But...
Does the Icon compiler produce native (machine) code? Execution
performance is still an issue for many, although I agree that it
is becoming *less* of an issue.
And can I leave a copy of the compiler with the client?