Icon Status Report

Last updated May 27, 2009

Implementations

• Version 9.4.3 of Icon for Unix, including the Icon program library, was released November 14, 2005.
• Version 9.4.3 was revalidated in November 2008 on Fedora 9, Ubuntu 8.10, and MacOS 10.5.5 (Leopard). On Leopard, the build is fine although the "io" test produces a spurious failure.
• Version 9.3.2 of Icon is available for Microsoft Windows and for 32-bit MS-DOS platforms.
• Version 2.1 of Jcon, an experimental Java-based implementation, is available for Unix.

Documentation

• Version 9.4 of Icon contains documentation in HTML form.
• The Icon Programming Language is available for free downloading.
• Graphics Programming in Icon is available for free downloading.
• The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language is available for free downloading.
• An expanded collection of historic technical reports is now on line. These reports describe research related to Icon as well as earlier versions of the implementation.
• Complete archives of the Icon Newsletter and Icon Analyst are now on line.

Personnel

• Ralph Griswold, founder of the Icon project, passed away October 4, 2006.
• A memorial endowment has been established in his honor.
• Gregg Townsend continues to maintain the Icon implementation and website.