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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:34:13 MST
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:14:56 -0600
From: Charlie Hethcoat <CHETHCOA@oss.oceaneering.com>
To: cshuster@ccmail.com
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re[2]: Why isn't Icon more widely used? -Reply
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
Everyone is abuzz about HTML nowadays, so if something clever and new
could be accomplished in Icon, it might be a Golden Oppty. But what would
it be, exactly? What would it look like? Subroutine library? VBXs? Java
code? Web browser? Or something totally unheralded?
I personally would like to see Icon used in some way to enhance
TeX/LaTeX formatting for both paper and screen (HTML) output. But I'm
new at this stuff and haven't quite figured out what it would be. Some tools
already exist, for example, to convert LaTeX into HTML and into Adobe PDF
(written in Perl, if I am not mistaken). What in this area could better be done
in Icon?
Charles Hethcoat
>>> <cshuster@ccmail.com> 1996 Apr 23, 01:40pm >>>
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/