thad@btr.btr.com (03/04/91)
ICON. Have you heard of it?
I came across a reference to it while browsing some of the stuff I snarfed
off the 'net and found a program which "fixes" tar archives containing files
whose names are > 14 characters long ... seems useful for us SysV types! :-)
Unpacked it, got ready to warm up the ol' compiler, and, lo and behold, no
Makefile and no *.c files. Hmmm, OK, time to read the READ.ME
Interesting. At cs.arizona.edu in the ftp area can be found a copy, with docs,
for the 3B1. Considering the source archive tree is approx. 5MB, you probably
just want the executable archive. Specifically:
/icon/v8/Interpreter/binaries/unix/unixpc/* has just the two executables
and
/icon/v8/Interpreter/binaries/ue.cpi is a cpio archive of all the executables,
docs, and sample programs for the 3B1. It's a cpio archive viewable per:
cpio -ictv < ue.cpi
and unpackable per "cpio -icdm < ue.cpi" and containing several more cpio
archives).
ICON is not at osu-cis, so this is the sole source. The cpio archive (NOT
compressed) is about 350Kbytes. Also at cs.arizona.edu are snobol4 sources
and some other goodies.
Does anyone know HOW to get this put on osu-cis? I don't believe I have
ftp "uploading" privileges and wasn't about to try a telnet and raise some
alarms. Is Lenny still reading this newsgroup?
Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) (03/08/91)
In article <2010@public.BTR.COM> thad@btr.btr.com writes: >ICON. Have you heard of it? > [ .. much good stuff deleted] Note that the Icon Project has a BBS also, (602) 621-2283. You can also order a Unix PC floppy from the Icon Project for $15. Address is Icon Project Department of Computer Science Gould-Simpson Building University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone # for info is (602) 621-2018. There is a free Icon Newsletter, as well, and you cal also buy documentation, etc. The primary source of documentation is _The_Icon _Programming_Language_, 2nd ed., Griswold and Griswold, Prentice hall, 1990, 367 pages. $30. (sorry, no ISBN #) All we U of A grads know Icon....:-) -- + Gordon Zaft | zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil + + NSWSES, Code 4Y33 | suned1!zaft@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov + + Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5007 | Phone: (805) 982-0684 FAX: 982-8768 + ** Ray Kaplan is a God! *** "Quoth the raven: Eat My Shorts!" -- B. Simpson **
gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) (03/09/91)
In <8354@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) writes: > There is a free Icon Newsletter, as well, and you cal also buy >documentation, etc. The primary source of documentation is _The_Icon >_Programming_Language_, 2nd ed., Griswold and Griswold, Prentice hall, >1990, 367 pages. $30. (sorry, no ISBN #) ISBN (of the 1983 edition, at least) is 0-13-449777-5. Dunno if that's useful. I'm sure your local bookstore can find it in _Books_in_Print_ anyway. -- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
andrew@macabre.UUCP (Andrew Lagodzinski) (03/10/91)
In article <2010@public.BTR.COM> thad@btr.btr.com writes: >ICON. Have you heard of it? Yep! [stuff about tar file fixed in ICON] >Interesting. At cs.arizona.edu in the ftp area can be found a copy, with docs, >for the 3B1. Considering the source archive tree is approx. 5MB, you probably >just want the executable archive. Specifically: > >/icon/v8/Interpreter/binaries/unix/unixpc/* has just the two executables > >and > >/icon/v8/Interpreter/binaries/ue.cpi is a cpio archive of all the executables, >docs, and sample programs for the 3B1. It's a cpio archive viewable per: > > cpio -ictv < ue.cpi > >and unpackable per "cpio -icdm < ue.cpi" and containing several more cpio >archives). > >ICON is not at osu-cis, so this is the sole source. The cpio archive (NOT >compressed) is about 350Kbytes. Also at cs.arizona.edu are snobol4 sources >and some other goodies. Actually, a version was available from the STORE! and now resides on OSU. It is rather old, but none the less. Here is a description from on of the STORE! listings. -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp 10 139709 Mar 22 23:33 ICON+IN.Z The Icon programming language was developed at the University of Arizona under an NSF grant. It is a high-level language with extensive facilities for processing strings and lists which incorporates many novel features. It has been compared to SNOBOL. Version 5.10 by R.E.Griswold and W.H.Mitchell (8/85). Ported by: Rick Fonorow. I remember someone (maybe Rick Fonorow) posting a while back about a newer version. This is most likely the same one that Thad has found on cs.arizona.edu. >Does anyone know HOW to get this put on osu-cis? I don't believe I have >ftp "uploading" privileges and wasn't about to try a telnet and raise some >alarms. Is Lenny still reading this newsgroup? Please arrange to get the latest copied to OSU! >Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ] -- Andrew Lagodzinski | UUCP andrew@macabre.uucp 1-408/371-7205 | {uunet, decwrl}!daver!ditka!macabre!andrew 413 Pinehurst Ave. | Los Gatos, CA 95032 | INTERNET andrew@cup.portal.com