[HN Gopher] The Unicon Programming Language
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       The Unicon Programming Language
        
       Author : andsoitis
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2024-12-28 15:55 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | Qem wrote:
       | Some days ago I tried to install from the PPA repository, but it
       | appears Ubuntu jammy derivatives are not supported yet. Is there
       | a PPA update estimate?
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       | I read Python stole its generators from Icon. Being an
       | enthusiastic user of the itertools module, was curious to see how
       | do generators work on Unicon/Icon.
        
         | andsoitis wrote:
         | Check out section 1.8 from this manual:
         | http://www2.cs.uidaho.edu/~jeffery/unicon/ub.pdf#page30
        
       | cdaringe wrote:
       | Seems pretty excellent for an old jalopy.
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Add XFT support and this language would be cool to have a fast
       | RAD development with easy crosscompilation.
        
         | skissane wrote:
         | > Add XFT support and this language would be cool to have a
         | fast RAD development with easy crosscompilation.
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         | What is "XFT support" in this context?
        
       | smartmic wrote:
       | I stumbled upon Unicon because I installed the noweb [1] literate
       | programming system from scratch some time ago. It uses Icon as an
       | (optional) dependency to create cross-references during the
       | weaving process. The fallback is based on Awk, but inferior in
       | features. Anyway, if you have read this far, you should check out
       | noweb and of course (Un)Icon.
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       | [1] https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb
        
       | frizlab wrote:
       | Oh silly me who read unicorn language for a long time before
       | getting it...
        
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