icon-language

What are the pros and cons of the Icon programming language?

Hello, Recently I was searching for icons(graphics), but I see a link that was very intersting, was a language called Icon, then I want to know: There is someone here that have already tried to develop in Icon? It's a compiled or interpreted language? What are the pros and cons of this language? In which area it's better than some ot...

what is the current use and future of icon programming language

While studying different programming languages, I recently hit upon Icon programming language. It seems to have quite cool syntax and functions for string scanning, goal directed execution, generators etc. and it was developed quite a few decades back (1977). There doesn't seem to be much information available on it regarding the place...