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000049_icon-group-sender _Fri Oct 13 10:29:19 1995.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 11:09:47 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:29:19 -0700
From: Eric Brown <ebrown@mty.sca.sony.com>
Message-Id: <307EA1EF.4DE1@mty.sca.sony.com>
Organization: Sony Corporation of America, San Jose, CA
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: icon and java
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Icon and Java seem very similiar:
* Both look like C
* Both have garbage collection
* Both have a p-code/VM implementation (see note 1 below)
Has anybody thought about modifying the icon compilier to generate
instructions for the Java VM?
Icon is a relatively unknown but very useful language. Making it
work with the Java VM might bring some popularity back to the
language. Who knows, maybe some grad student at Arizona can even
get funding to do it.
For Java-heads, see http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/www/ for Icon
Programming Language info.
Hopeful,
Eric.
Note 1: I haven't programmed in Icon for a while, but that's the
way it used to work. I guess the latest implementations now have
native compiliers but Icon appears to still support some
intermediate form called ucode.