hildum@iris.ucdavis.edu (Eric Hildum) (11/21/90)
I have been looking at some articles on the X window system recently, and am curious about the Icon communities' thoughts on how an X Window/Motif based graphical interface would most naturally be incorporated. I realize that the intent of Icon is the development of high level language constructs and semantics; however, with the growing importance of graphical interfaces, the current simple I/O system Icon supports seems inadequate. In particular, I am interested in the the effects of language constructs and semantics such as coexpressions, suspend and resume, generators, and failure in combination with the asynchronous model of the X protocol. Any comments on how such an interface might be built and what form it should take? dehildum@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Internet) dehildum@ucdavis.bitnet (BITNET) ucbvax!ucdavis!dehildum (uucp)