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> I have often wondered about and wanted just this function. If there isn't
such a feature now, how hard would it be to make one?
I realize it's not EXACTLY the same, but SPITBOL 386 (and SPITBOL NT) can both
make executable .EXE files. SPITBOL is a language with many similar features to
Icon, of course.
Given the choice of both languages, I almost always use S*BOL in preference to
Icon... I guess mostly just because I find S*BOL pattern matching so much easier
and more natural than Icon's string scanning. Of course, in some applications
the S*BOL CODE() and EVAL() functions are absolutely required... and that's also
a deal-breaker as far as coding the thing in Icon is concerned.
Certainly Icon has a more traditional syntax, but one shouldn't overlook the
S*BOL languages either! In many, many applications I still think they are the
Right Choice. :-)
OTOH, I can't think of hardly ANYTHING that I think would be a good enough
reason to use Perl. :-)
Gordon Peterson
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