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RE: [Axiom-developer] NOWEB
From: |
Page, Bill |
Subject: |
RE: [Axiom-developer] NOWEB |
Date: |
Thu, 4 May 2006 15:09:52 -0400 |
Gaby,
On Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:17 PM you wrote:
> ...
> Bill Page writes:
> |
> | I have installed Icon on the axiom-developer.org server and it
> | seems like a nice neat little language ... but I am sure Tim
> | will say: "Oh horrors, yet another programming language!" :)
>
> And I will second him!
>
> [Note: I have written small programs in Icon, and enjoyed
> "Graphics Programming in Icon" which you can get almost for
> free if you in academia.]
>
Sometimes I wonder how someone who does not really appreciate
diverse programming languages would ever be motivated to
become an Axiom developer ... although I would not expect
Axiom *users* to necessarily be so multilingual. ;)
I think Icon was a worthy predecessor of the currently very
popular web scripting languages like perl and python that came
later but did a lot of the same things (not necessarily as
well ):
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/index.htm
Icon has venerable history rather similar to Axiom's, beginning
in 1977:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=155360.155363
But it certainly is not a "dead" language yet:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/status.htm
The Icon books are now in fact free for all and I can highly
recommend both of them. You can download them here:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/gb
Regards,
Bill Page.