Hi All, I am new to the list and the group. I took my first steps into event driven GUI/graphics programming with Icon several years ago, there is evidence in the form of a teen spirited "TEST!!!" post on comp.lang.icon for maximum embarrassment now.
>From the years of experience I have had since those early days of messing around with Icon, I've not found a language that was as rapid and easy to program in. With the features now present in Unicon I really think the programming community at large is missing out on a great language, and want to do what I can to promote its use - especially to young people just starting out. When you can have a useful graphical program running within ten lines of easily read source you know you are dealing with a winning language. Towards this end I recently contacted Éric Lévénez who maintains a wonderful diagram of programming language history, a kind of family tree of inherited language constructs. He kindly agreed to update his site content immediately to display Unicon (he already had Icon down!). To take a look for the sake of nostalgia or gaining new found respect for the many influences that have shaped modern scripting languages check out http://www.levenez.com/lang/ Happy coding, Matt. --- Mr Matt Oates Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Queen's Building, University Walk Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TR http://people.brl.ac.uk/people/template.jsp?username=oates http://www.mattoates.co.uk http://bccs.bris.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
