Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Merrilee Larson wrote: >> Hi... >> >> Well I visited the Unicon Home and at SourceForge. I could not find any >> reference as to whether Unicon was a compiler or interpreter. As my goal >> is strictly CGI, an interpreter is what *I'm* looking for. TIA.... > >(I'm adding the Unicon mailing list to this reply - you may want to move >Unicon questions over there to get more detailed replies...) > >Unicon, like Icon, uses an interpreter. A compiler is also in the works, >I believe, for those cases where it might be useful. > >I've used Unicon with CGI and databases (and with SOAP, to a limited >degree) - it's a nice pairing. > >-- >Steve Wampler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.
To cut through the various definitions of interpreted vs. compiled language implementations, I'm guessing that Merrilee means a language where the development cycle for a web app is like edit <-> reload instead of edit -> compile -> reload... Unicon does not have that property. Not that it matters. In 5 minutes you would write a little wrapper program that compiles if necessary then executes a Unicon program. (Hmm, "#! /usr/bin/make"?) Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
