Unicon (programming language)
| Unicon | |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | object-oriented, procedural |
| Designed by | Clint Jeffery |
| OS | Cross-platform: Windows, Unix |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | unicon |
| Influenced by | |
| Icon | |
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."