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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:08:50 MST
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:17:47 +0100
From: Hamish Lawson <H.Lawson@tees.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Teesside, School of Computing and Maths
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To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Why isn't Icon more widely used?
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Why doesn't the rest of the world share my fondness for Icon? I don't
mean, why are they still using Fortran, Cobol, and C; but even in Icon's
niche of text processing I don't seem to come across programs written in
Icon. I've come across a LaTeX to HTML convertor, various BiBTeX tools,
and several CGI scripts written in Perl, but I've never come across any
Icon programs outside of Icon circles - and even in Icon circles, many
of these programs don't seem to have been produced. Why this unfortunate
state of affairs?
| Hamish Lawson, School of Computing and Mathematics,
| University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, UK, TS1 3BA
| Tel: +44 1642 212695 Fax: +44 1642 342604
| E-mail: H.Lawson@tees.ac.uk