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From: [e-mail] (Jay Rinkel)
Subject: Imbeddable Icon?
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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 22:31:51 GMT
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Hi!  I was wondering if Icon was designed to be set up as a control/scripting
language to run inside an existing C/C++/Java program?  Seems like I read that
Icon had some limited support for calling external routines but the Icon
interpreter was considered to be the main executable while anything it calls
was considered to be "support" type routines.  What would be nice is to have
the ability to imbed an Icon interpreter inside the desired application and
the application can call what ever procedure of the icon "program" it wanted.
Then the ability to map Icon procedure names to functions/methods of the host
application would also be nice.  Is this currently possible?  If not, has
there been any thought in making a version of the interpreter which could be
imbedded as I mentioned?

I have been programming in Icon (mostly from a casual standpoint to build
little "helper" programs)  off and on for about 5 years and I personally see a
great possibility in allowing Icon to be used as a scripting language for
other applications.

Jay Rinkel