nowlin@ihuxy.UUCP (Jerry D Nowlin +1 312 979 0441) (08/28/89)
Just a P.S. to the last mail I sent. The simulator I was talking about not only parsed a language, it interpreted it, allowed extensive tracing of the language as it was interpreted, and generated screen displays. It also generated PostScript, pic, and another color printer language for hardcopies of the screen displays. The entire source was only 3,909 lines. In contrast the C program that did nothing but parse the same language and generate binary C readable intermediate files was over 7,000 lines. I know these kinds of numbers are open to interpretation but since I wrote both programs I think the comparison is still meaningful. Icon is an elegant language. Jerry Nowlin (...!att!ihuxy!nowlin)