Unicon (programming language)

Unicon is a programming language designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from Icon and a preprocessor for Icon called IDOL. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the operating system as well as support for object-oriented programming. Unicon began life as a merger of three popular Icon extensions: an OO preprocessor named Idol, a POSIX filesystem and networking interface, and an ODBC facility. The name is shorthand for "Unified Extended Dialect of Icon."

Unicon
Paradigmobject-oriented, procedural
Designed byClint Jeffery
OSCross-platform: Windows, Unix
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteunicon.sourceforge.net
Influenced by
Icon

Example code

 
procedure main()
	w := open("test UNICON window", "g")
	write(w, "Hello, World!")
	read(w)
	close(w)
end

See also
  • Rebol, a similar web-oriented expression-based language without the use of keywords
  • Curl, multi-paradigm web content functional language which is also expression-based but only for client-side
  • Coroutine
  • Generators
  • Continuation

References
  1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2420091_Closure-Based_Inheritance_and_Inheritance_Cycles_in_Idol
  2. http://unicon.org/utr/utr1/utr1.htm
  3. http://unicon.org/utr/utr9c.pdf
  4. http://unicon.org/utr/utr14.pdf
  5. http://unicon.org/book/ub.pdf
  6. http://unicon.org/helpwanted.html
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