goer@SOPHIST.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz) (02/13/90)
We`ve found icont, and iconx, but is there to be found an iconc?
Just about everyone would like to see a compiler, but it's a whole dif-
ferent ball game than an interpreter. The most recent Icon newsletter
mentioned that research in this are was going on. With all the work the
icon-project members put in right now, though, it might not be fitting
for us to press them on this subject.
The "Icon book," as everyone affectionately calls it, speaks of a com-
piler (version 5 is it?). Compilers haven't been implemented since
then, though you can save an image of the executing program under Unix,
chmod it so that it is an executable file, and then pretend it is a
compiled program. You're working on an Atari, though, so you're out
of luck. Sorry.
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
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