*Mate Wierdl writes:
| How about Icon? http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/index.htm
You mean: "Why not a scripting language nobody has hard of, then there
will be no language wars" :-)
I just mentioned Icon on an impulse: this is a TeX related list, and I
I first saw a reference for Icon in relation with TeX. Also, Icon has
graphics capabilities. So I thought, maybe some of you might have
heard of it---or will check it out.
Well, I read about Icon in Paul Abrahams book "Unix for the
Impatient". This is the same Paul Abrahams who wrote "TeX for the
Impatient" with Karl Berry. Abrahams used Icon in the Unix book to
make up the Index---instead of using makeindex.
So there is your TeX connection.
Icon is not a new language:
The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language, Griswold
and Griswold, Princeton University Press, 1986, 336 pages, ISBN
0-691-08431-9.
and it runs on a gadzillion platforms.
About the graphics facilities:
"Icon's graphics facilities presently are supported on UNIX, VAX/VMS, Windows
3.1 (with Win32s), Windows 95, and Windows NT."
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/docs/ipd281.htm
Of course, I have no idea what you guys want, need. The ad for Icon
in Abrahams book is very favorable---seemed more enthusiastic than the
one for Perl---, so I thought I channel it here.
Mate
