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Article #5947Icon plug (was Re: Algol-68 down for the count)
From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 08:49
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 08:49
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In article <1064@raspail.UUCP> bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >There are a lot of languages out there that were developed >by individuals (Snobol, Icon, Euclid, Trac, FP, etc.) that probably would be >considered successes under your first criterion, but never achieved wide-scale >popularity, for numerous reasons, including lack of publicity or machine >implementations, or similarity to other languages. I would just like to remark that Icon is very much a live language, is available for a lot of machines (PCs, PS/2, Atari-ST, VAX/VMS, Unix, lots of others), is a heck of a lot cleaner than AWK, and is available for the price of the tape/floppies + handling from the University of Arizona, in *source* form. Don't dismiss it yet!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Icon plug (was Re: Algol-68 down for the count) Message-ID: <772@quintus.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 08:49:56 GMT References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <16187@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <599@quintus.UUCP> <406@ubbpc.UUCP> <1064@raspail.UUCP> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 12