Hello - I assume - just lack of resources. I am not connected with the people who maintain Unicon so I don't really know. It is made available to us free of charge so finance has to come from somewhere else.
Hence my question what is needed to forward various projects and how much of what. Perhaps there are people out there who would support some projects if they had an idea of the scale of commitment needed. I should think this applies to any non-commercial software project. Meanwhile, the more Icon and Unicon are used for external projects the better-known they will become. Regards _John Sampson_ On 27/01/2011 21:25, Duke Normandin wrote: > 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
