From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3AE99AB2.2C01572E@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3AE97FA7.4869F919@FWS.Gov> Subject: Re: [9fans] High-Level Programming Language for Plan9 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:43:43 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9560b23a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Mark C. Otto" wrote: > The idea would not be to use sockets or X11 in plan9 but to replace those with > plan9 network and graphics routines. Given that plan9 uses text-based ways of > networking and doing graphics and uses UNICode, it would make a natural > extension of UNIcon. I followed the development of Icon for many years; it is a nice language for some purposes, and much more elegant than, say, Perl. I don't think Icon needs any extension for Unicode nor for networking and graphics on Plan 9; if the basic character code is wide enough, Unicode characters can be supported with no special effort, and on Plan 9 one ought to be able to do all necessary graphics and networking via the more general file I/O facilities.