Sudarshan, Some may find it comical that I am willing to work with students on Unicon without bothering to "convert" them into believers first. Ralph Griswold worked with many students on Icon who didn't see the light, so this is not unprecedented. If you don't have time to "get it" by reading enough Icon documents or writing enough Icon code, I doubt that you will "get it" by hearing a few positive testimonials, if you even get any. I collect positive testimonials, by the way, so if you get any posted privately you might ask their author(s) if you can forward them to me for public display.
I myself saw the light when I took a comparative languages course and wrote a mini LISP interpreter in Icon in less than a week. Far far easier than doing it in a C-like language. You have no idea. You already know about some production uses of Unicon, which include NLM's SSEUS database peer review management system, and the collaborative virtual environment. The former might just be saving the government over $1 million per year in maintenance over the Visual Basic system that it replaced, and the latter is still under construction but hopefully will turn out to be a Killer App for Unicon. In any case it has stretched the Icon family of languages into new territory, which is Fun. Anyhow, I hope you get positive testimonials but I am skeptical that your skeptical inquiry will produce whatever it would take to cause you to open your mind. That can only be done by taking the time to write some programs in Icon or Unicon and/or reading others' programs (there are lots and lots available, I still encounter amazing new idioms in this language that others have invented on the fly while coding their apps). Cheers, Clint ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list Unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
