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If I remember correctly, one of the selling points of the Roxen/Pike combination back then was its ability to dynamically render headings as images without much

by mhd 7y ago

If I remember correctly, one of the selling points of the Roxen/Pike combination back then was its ability to dynamically render headings as images without much effort. "Weird flex", as the kids say these days, but times were weird and HTML limited. Pike itself always struck me as rather boring. Quite C-like compared to the other P-languages, but nothing really powerful. Still probably better than pre-7 PHP… (Anyone knows what happened or didn't happen to Icon? Looked more interesting back then, but vanished into the haze.)

nyankosensei 7y ago
Icon is still available, but not actively developed: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ Unicon is an object-oriented descendant that’s more active: http://unicon.org/ http://unicon.org/ I often wonder why Icon (or Unicon) isn’t more widely known or used these days. They’re very easy to understand and I was amazed how quickly I could write interesting code. There are excellent tutorial books available to help get started: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/books.htm https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/books.htm