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[adding database features]
> This would certainly be very sweet, but would not a C++ generator give
it to you,
No.
> ...along with a zillion other possible applications for Icon
code?
The poster is operating under the probably-misguided presumption that the Icon
runtime environment and program behavior rules are anything remotely like those
of traditional C programs and routines. While such a compiler *could* certainly
produce "C" code, you can be sure that it wouldn't look much like any
application you'd ever seen written "in C". :-)
And if the database stuff can be accessed (cleanly) at the Icon level, I
couldn't care less whether there's anything remotely approaching C source
related to the program (in fact, I'd probably rather keep it as it is, so the
Icode files can be so much smaller).
Gordon Peterson
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