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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA22113
for icon-group-addresses; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:54:12 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199812082354.QAA22113@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:16:16 -0600
From: MJE <evans@gte.net>
To: Shamim Mohamed <shamim@Synopsys.COM>
CC: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: Internet Programming with Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
Shamim Mohamed wrote:
>
> Philip Pesek:
> > does the icon language have support for internet programming either under
> > unix or with winsock or something like that?
>
> Gregg Townsend:
> > Not really. There's some loadable C code for Unix in the Icon program
> > library that lets a client open a connection to a server, but that's
> > about it.
>
> A quick plug: Unicon has support for sockets. Patches for Icon 9.3 on Unix
> are available from http://www.drones.com/unicon/. Most of Unicon has been
> ported to the Microsoft Windows platform by Clint Jeffery and his students
> and will be available soon.
>
> -s
I love it -- "inciting me to commit this act of implementation" -- we
need more of that around here.
Anything that takes the headaches out of Unix is worthwhile. Pretty
soon you'll have all those fat-cat sys-admins looking for work, while
minimum wage teenage hackers write Icon scripts to replace them.
Mark