> Sidney Reilley II <[email protected]> skribis:
>
> Existing Icon versions don't interface well with today's many
> libraries and applications, or it might be more popular. Python OTOH
> interfaces happily and already with practically everything -- for
> instance, of interest to a font guy like me, both FontForge and
> FontLab. (I use the former.)
>
I would rather say that (Un)Icon doesn't appear to integrate well because
nobody has put in the effort. Given that Perls, Pythons, PHP's etc are newer
than Unicon, and were developed in an environment that is heavily influenced
by the World of the Wide Web, it follows that their authors put effort into
that kind of coding project.
Nothing stops Icon from being just as good except for the lack of
comprehensive collection of APIs for other technologies. I look at the CPAN
code repository in Perl and think "wow! how did it get so much code so fast?"
I almost never fail to find a Perl package that does at least 1/2 of a new
task I need to write.
I'm learning Python because it's available to program my mobile phone (Nokia
E71 on Symbian) and I'm already feeling the lack of libraries. It seems that
using Perl for many projects in the last several years has made me lazy; I
expect someone else to have made a useful library and I get cranky when I
can't find one!
We as a community could do worse than picking subsets from CPAN and rewriting
them....
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