Let us loosely define production as any piece of code that you are emotionally attached to ;-).
If you are using Unicon why have you not switched to a "more popular" language ?
What are the features that you would want Unicon to borrow from the more popular languages?
I am hoping that this conversation might lead us to the real strengths of Unicon as well as the future directions this language should take.
In my personel experience I worked on the Unicon compiler while at NMSU. However I was never really able to pick up Unicon or really gork goal directed evaluation. I guess one of the reasons is I have only been exposed to pseudo C languages (C, C++, C#, Java).
The other is I did not work on a project that would have me reading and modifying a large body of Unicon code. I guess most of the languages program in I am comfortable with a subset of the language features and tend to stay within my comfort zone. What ever little Unicon I wrote was primarly using features that agree with C.
regards
Sudarshan
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lusong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis:
> Then I touched ruby deeply. One or two features of ruby are better than
> Icon/Unicon, such as multithread. But I confirm Icon/Unicon is better than
> ruby and python carefully.
>
> Why is Icon/Unicon not popular from its start to now? Icon/Unicon is
> excellent, they should be have a better position in programming language.
I imagine it is mainly because Arizona Icon never tried to be usable
as an all-purpose scripting language for Unix/BSD/GNU, and so Unicon
had no following to inherit. Another reason could be that
goal-directed evaluation is very unusual.
I myself learned about Icon through noweb, which I don't use anymore,
and Icon is only optional for noweb.
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