2001-04-08 12:41:49 -04:00
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Icon is a program language that looks superficially like Pascal,
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but which supports generators. It also include some very reasonable
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X11 support.
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2005-03-14 20:57:02 -05:00
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The compiler for icon is highly experimental and not very efficient.
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2001-04-08 12:41:49 -04:00
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- it does not support separate compilation.
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- it creates somewhat largish C files for all but the smallest projects.
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For instance, an icon project of 3000 lines translates to a C file of
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90000 lines.
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It does feature some static type analysis, which occasionally causes bugs,
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as not all rules in the languages have been checked. Unfortunately, it
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does not feature specialized code for arithmetic, where it would really go
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fast if it were using C arithmetic.
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Nonetheless, the resulting code is about twice as fast as the interpreted
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code.
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There is a no_x11 flavor, that does not require X11 to run.
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