bryan rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a newbie with Unicon, I basically decided to start with it > because, well I like learning new languages especially ones with an > easily perceived niche. I think the niche of Unicon as you say is text > processing. > > I use XML a lot in my day to day, I'm not sure I understand the > assertion that Unicon would be great for XML, since the main thing one > needs for XML programming is easy tree manipulation, such as is > provided with XSL-T.
There's an XML parser in the uni/xml directory of the CVS. I haven't used it a lot, though it is likely I will be soon. I agree with Kent Palmer that the syntax of Icon/Unicon isn't great, but I'm not sure how much effect that has on popularity, considering that languages with significant syntax difficulties, such as Perl and C++, have been adopted anyway. Personally, my best hypothesis would be that Icon hasn't become more popular mainly because you had to go buy the book, 'The Icon Programming Language', and thus only the most curious people ever tried Icon, for they had to go to some effort and spend money doing it. Perl is an example of a language that became popular in part because you could try it without buying a book, though of course you might buy a book or two later. The copylefted Unicon book as a PDF is a start towards a remedy, but you need more stuff similar to the Perl manpage(s), the GNU info pages, on-line HTML tutorials and documentation, and so forth. -- Barry.SCHWARTZ ĉe chemoelectric punkto org http://chemoelectric.org Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)
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