The Lisp community has a Road to Lisp category and I thought this might be of
interest to those of us in the Unicon community. Perhaps it might even be put
on the website.
I first picked up Icon in the 1980's or 1990's (don't remember which). It was
featured in the available selections of a shareware catalog. Being a
programmer at heart - albeit mostly in Mumps
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS) and medical information systems - I chose
languages instead of other categories.
Over the years I have used Icon and Unicon for utilities at work and at home.
The largest one at work was a conversion tool for migrating COBOL screens. The
manual effort could take hours, so I took this as an excuse/reason to make a
program of the task. The completed program took seconds. While I was not the
only one assigned to this project, it struck me as odd that only 1 other
individual chose to use the tool. More recently I used Unicon to create my
first Windows program to help with a church calling.
The only thing that approaches the usefulness of this family of languages has
been the help I've received over the years from this forum and its predecessors.
Thanks so much.
Steve
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