wally@dragos.uucp (Wallace Harshaw) (02/12/90)
So, the question of the day is: Where does one find a compiler for our wonderful Icon that runs on the Atari ST? We`ve found icont, and iconx, but is there to be found an iconc? -- O o Wallace Harshaw ( ) somewhere around here... "] [" <you don't have to understand it, just look at it...>
ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (02/13/90)
The so-called Icon compiler, iconc, has not been supported for any version of Icon for many years, and there never hsa been one for the Atari ST. The term compiler in this context is somewhat misleading. The iconc you refer to compiled Icon mostly into subroutine calls and was only 5-10% faster than the interpreter. Granted there are other advantages to iconc, like being able to link C functions. However, iconc was not portable and we did not have the resources to maintain it as a separate program. Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721 +1 602 621 6609 ralph@cs.arizona.edu uunet!arizona!ralph