Gaby, On Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:17 PM you wrote: > ... > Bill Page writes: > | > | I have installed Icon on the axiom-developer.org server and it > | seems like a nice neat little language ... but I am sure Tim > | will say: "Oh horrors, yet another programming language!" :) > > And I will second him! > > [Note: I have written small programs in Icon, and enjoyed > "Graphics Programming in Icon" which you can get almost for > free if you in academia.] >
Sometimes I wonder how someone who does not really appreciate diverse programming languages would ever be motivated to become an Axiom developer ... although I would not expect Axiom *users* to necessarily be so multilingual. ;) I think Icon was a worthy predecessor of the currently very popular web scripting languages like perl and python that came later but did a lot of the same things (not necessarily as well ): http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/index.htm Icon has venerable history rather similar to Axiom's, beginning in 1977: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=155360.155363 But it certainly is not a "dead" language yet: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/status.htm The Icon books are now in fact free for all and I can highly recommend both of them. You can download them here: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/gb Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
