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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:18:15 MST
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:34:44 +0300 (WET)
From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: gep2@computek.net
Cc: Hamish Lawson <H.Lawson@tees.ac.uk>, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Why isn't Icon more widely used?
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Status: O
I think the main reason for Perl success as compared to Icon is code
reuse. Today, I you are planning to write a CGI script, there is tons of
free software, and libraries for Perl. Not so much for Icon.
Another point is that people don't know Icon - they don't even know it
exists.
Two things to do:
1. Add CGI/HTML parsing to the Icon Library.
2. Put some examples on the Icon home page, and advertise on Usenet that
they exist.
Then wait...
Bye,
Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il