On 1 Oct 2006, at 03:39, Sudarshan Gaikaiwari wrote: > I am interested in finding how many people use Unicon in production. > Let us loosely define production as any piece of code that you are > emotionally attached to ;-).
Well I have a couple of live CGI scripts on my personal website, although I never got around to finishing them off. Too many other pressing things... > If you are using Unicon why have you not switched to a "more > popular" language ? > What are the features that you would want Unicon to borrow from the > more popular languages? I'd really like the object model to be a bit more like that of Ruby, which is incredibly flexible. I do a lot of work in Ruby because it's fun and growing in commercial acceptance, it's also the closest I've come to the buzz when I first learnt Icon (way back in 1989 - how little most of the software world has progressed since then). Threading would also be nice. I even looked into adding this myself a few years back but I really hate messing in the Icon internals. That of course brings me to the biggest change - a new runtime implementation that was easier to hack around with. Of course that's a serious project to contemplate... > I am hoping that this conversation might lead us to the real > strengths of Unicon as well as the future directions this language > should take. > > In my personel experience I worked on the Unicon compiler while at > NMSU. However I was never really able to pick up Unicon or really > gork goal directed evaluation. I guess one of the reasons is I have > only been exposed to pseudo C languages (C, C++, C#, Java). I think it's hard for anyone with preconceptions about software design to pick up Icon/Unicon which might explain why so many of the people who show an interest in it are either language designers or people with non-computing backgrounds. Ellie Eleanor McHugh -- http://eleanor.goth-chic.org/ http://feyeleanor.livejournal.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list Unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
