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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:24:03 MST
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:02:17 -0600
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: Re: What's the biggest Icon program you've written?
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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>I do tend to do all my development in Icon/perl/C/C++/PostScript... I use
Icon as much as I can, switch to perl when this will be faster to code,
I'm fairly astounded that ANYONE knowing Icon wouldn't prefer SNOBOL4/SPITBOL to
Perl... the fact that ANYONE would use Perl for ANYTHING, given the availability
of SNOBOL4/SPITBOL instead, verges on insanity... I guess we have to
forgive[/pity] those who don't know any better (for them, Perl probably looks
great) but for those of us who ARE more aware...
>C/C++ for anything that craves speed, and PostScript for printing
applications.
For TRUE speed, obviously nothing much beats assembler language (despite, yes,
it being something of a dying art...), and for business or communications
applications I like FoxPro and SALT, respectively. I agree that PostScript
wouldn't be a bad language for print generating applications, but then again I
don't seem to need that kind of thing very often. I use C mostly just when I
need to interface with existing C-centric libraries etc etc.
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/