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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:05:47 MST
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:32:56 -0500
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To: Charlie Hethcoat <CHETHCOA@oss.oceaneering.com>
From: cdt@post.its.mcw.edu (Chris D. Tenaglia)
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Why isn't Icon more widely used? -Reply
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Need a killer app? I say this only half jokingly, but
myself and some colleagues have noticed that the whole
world revolves around "mail and labels". Think of using
a browser to generate mailing labels or email lookups,
or work flow in a way not thought of before. I've
made email lookups converting MSaccess extracts and
Netware Bindery dumps into HTML. Lots of URLS that look
like file:///h|/mine.htm and so forth.
Chris.
>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?
>
>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--
>
>______________________________ Reply Separator
>_________________________________
>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.
>
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