ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) (11/30/88)
In article <1064@raspail.UUCP> bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >There are a lot of languages out there that were developed >by individuals (Snobol, Icon, Euclid, Trac, FP, etc.) that probably would be >considered successes under your first criterion, but never achieved wide-scale >popularity, for numerous reasons, including lack of publicity or machine >implementations, or similarity to other languages. I would just like to remark that Icon is very much a live language, is available for a lot of machines (PCs, PS/2, Atari-ST, VAX/VMS, Unix, lots of others), is a heck of a lot cleaner than AWK, and is available for the price of the tape/floppies + handling from the University of Arizona, in *source* form. Don't dismiss it yet!