On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, John Sampson wrote: > I have been using Icon and Unicon for some years and found them to > be very usable. They are such good languages, and so > well-documented especially by the Griswolds, that it seems a pity > they are not more widely-known and better-resourced for development.
I _totally agree as far as the documentation goes. Otherwise, I'm too much of a noob in these languages to comment. > On unfinished projects, see various previous posts. There is the > stalled project to add pattern types, for example. There was a > Prolog interpreter and plans to improve that which never came to > anything. See also the recent discussion of error messages. There is > a regexp package of ancient vintage. It _is_ curious - that's for sure. Is it a licensing issue, do you suppose? > My concern is not that Unicon is deficient but there seems to be so > much unrealised potential in a language well ahead of its time. Ummmm... Do you have any recommendation(s) for a solution? -- Duke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
