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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 13:23:37 MST
Message-Id: <n1408554088.4323@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Jun 1995 13:20:06 U
From: "Michael Shafto" <Michael_Shafto@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: ICON and Data Conversio
To: " 456-8765 Chris Tenaglia " <TENAGLIA@MIS.MCW.EDU>, dcorbo@ix.netcom.com
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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Reply to: RE>>ICON and Data Conversion
>From: 456-8765 Chris Tenaglia
>
>Exactly what I use it for. There's a ton of tools available
>like Perl, Icon, and AWK. One seems to pick one and use it
>like a swiss army knife. I use icon as my preferred tool.
> ...
I would just add that the main reason I like the
Icon Swiss Army knife is that I can move the same
source code from DOS to Mac to Windows -- I need
to be able to work on all three platforms. The cross-
platform source compatibility, in addition to the
data structures supported and the fact that Icon is
a real programming language, makes it the knife of choice.
Mike