On 6 Oct 2006, at 10:09, Clint Jeffery wrote: > I myself saw the light when I took a comparative languages course > and wrote > a mini LISP interpreter in Icon in less than a week. Far far > easier than > doing it in a C-like language. You have no idea.
I used Icon to rewrite the examples from "Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach" by Samuel N. Kamin. At the time I was also playing with Pop-11 (much to my tutor's irritation - none of this was part of my undergrad physics curriculum...) and I couldn't get over how easy it is to write parsers with Icon's scanning and goal direction features. It's made me very dismissive of Lisp ever since lol > You already know about some production uses of Unicon, which > include NLM's > SSEUS database peer review management system, and the collaborative > virtual > environment. The former might just be saving the government over > $1 million > per year in maintenance over the Visual Basic system that it > replaced, and > the latter is still under construction but hopefully will turn out > to be a > Killer App for Unicon. In any case it has stretched the Icon > family of > languages into new territory, which is Fun. I'm interested that you've replaced a VB system with an Unicon one as I spent years writing VB5 code that relied heavily on several Icon- like idioms - especially success/failure and generators. A lot of the work I was doing then involved VB in the embedded avionics space and for system-level coding, and those idioms made delivering reliable code much easier than with the third-party certified C libraries most people relied upon. I just wish I could have been working in Icon/ Unicon in the first place... 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
