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From: hildum@iris.ucdavis.edu (Eric Hildum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Icon I/O system and X Windows/Motif
Keywords: icon, i/o, input, output, X, X window, X11
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Date: 21 Nov 90 02:43:46 GMT
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I have been looking at some articles on the X window system recently,
and am curious about the Icon communities' thoughts on how an X
Window/Motif based graphical interface would most naturally be
incorporated. I realize that the intent of Icon is the development of
high level language constructs and semantics; however, with the growing
importance of graphical interfaces, the current simple I/O system Icon
supports seems inadequate.

In particular, I am interested in the the effects of language
constructs and semantics such as coexpressions, suspend and resume,
generators, and failure in combination with the asynchronous model of
the X protocol.

Any comments on how such an interface might be built and what form it
should take?
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