Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-lcc!lll-winken!arisia!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: What makes a language successful? (Was: Algol-68 down for the count) Message-ID: <804@quintus.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 02:41:19 GMT References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <16187@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <599@quintus.UUCP> <1064@raspail.UUCP> <413@ubbpc.UUCP> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 18 In article <1064@raspail.UUCP>, bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >There are a lot of languages out there that were developed > by individuals (Snobol, Icon, Euclid, Trac, FP, etc.) that probably would be Euclid was not designed by an individual. It was designed by a group of people working together largely by E-mail. As for Icon, while Griswold is the driving force behind that, several other people have worked on the language. Quoting the HISTORY file which comes with Icon version 7: Many persons have contributed to the design and implementation of various versions of Icon. The initial versions were designed by Ralph Griswold, Dave Hanson, and Tim Korb. The initial implementations were done by Dave Hanson and Tim Korb with assistance from Walt Hansen. Subsequent versions were designed by Cary Coutant, Ralph Griswold, and Steve Wampler. Cary Coutant and Steve Wampler did the initial C implementations. Subsequent work has been done by many persons, notably Ralph Griswold, Bill Mitchell, Kelvin Nilsen, Ken Walker, Dave Gudeman, and Janalee O'Bagy. Much of the work on Version 7 was done by Gregg Townsend and Ken Walker.