iconc
Compiler for Icon, a high-level programming language
Ideal for both complex nonnumerical applications and for situations where
users need quick solutions with a minimum of programming effort, Icon is a
high-level, general purpose programming language with a syntax similar to
Pascal and C. Its applications include: rapid prototyping, analyzing
natural languages, generating computer programs, and artificial
intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming
Language," by Griswold and Griswold.)
This package contains the Icon compiler. It generates programs that
generally run faster than those of the icont/iconx Icon interpreter. On the
other hand, the Icon compiler takes much longer to compile programs and is
more memory-hungry than the iconx/icont pair. As such, the compiler is
probably only useful to speed up the execution of large Icon programs once
they are fully developed and debugged.
