What's New?
- Building Unicon from source on Vista? Good luck! Check out
Dr. J's Unicon Build Instructions for some tips.
- Jon Pearkins has created RalphGriswold.com to satisfy our need to revere and remember Ralph E. Griswold.
- Mike Wilder has developed an optimizing compiler for Unicon based on
Ken Walker's iconc program. His
Thesis is
available for public comment. The code is now in CVS. Further
work on compiler scalability and additional optimizations are planned.
- CVS trouble? SourceForge has changed Unicon's CVS hostname again!
All your CVS/Root files need to say
user@unicon.cvs.sourceforget.net
instead of @cvs.sourceforge.net, which had replaced
@cvs.unicon.sourceforge.net.
- The Technical Reports page has a new section
on works-in-progress, describing recent works that have been implemented.
- Sudarshan Gaikaiwari
has developed a proposed SNOBOL-style
Pattern data type for Unicon. His
Thesis is available for public comment, and the code is in the
Unicon CVS (not turned on by default, yet). Some feedback received
leads us to expect substantial revision will occur before this
feature becomes part of the language standard, but it does offer
promising concise notation and faster performance than string scanning.
- The new Ivib 2 and gui package are now the default Ivib tool;
Ivib 1 is still available but Ivib 2 is pretty good at migrating
GUI dialogs and offers numerous technical advantages.
- Nolan Clayton has been kind enough to provide
us with these logos for use in websites and applications:
- Unicon Version 11.1 features improved 3D facilities,
substantial additions to the class libraries, and a major
revision to the IDE. Robert Parlett and Nolan Clayton made
major contributions to Unicon 11.1.
- The National Science Foundation has awarded NMSU $840,000 for
the development of a Virtual Community system including a 3D
multiuser environment and collaborative programming environment.
The system will be used for computer science distance education
in courses such as compilers and software engineering.
The system will be written in Unicon. Preparatory work has
begun at
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/vcsc/
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