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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:18:28 MST
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 12:40:47 pst
From: cshuster@ccmail.com
Encoding: 24 Text
Message-Id: <9603238302.AA830288652@smtpgate.ccmail.com>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re[2]: Why isn't Icon more widely used?
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
My thoughts exactly! An implementation of html parsing done in Icon
would be a compelling example to Perl. Do any already exist?
--Cy--
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Subject: Re: Why isn't Icon more widely used?
Author: gep2@computek.net at internet-mail
Date: 4/23/96 8:32 AM
The really good question is why Perl is so widely used in Web CGI scripts, where
ICON could probably do the job a great deal better!
This is a major new area IMHO where ICON could make a big impact, if it could be
better known.
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/