Icon Status Report

Last updated November 8, 2007

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.

Implementations

• Version 9.4.3 of Icon for Unix, including the Icon program library, was released November 14, 2005.
• Version 9.4.3 has most recently been revalidated on Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.10, and MacOS 10.5 (Leopard). On Leopard, the build is fine but the "io" test fails because Leopard has no /etc/motd file.
• 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

• 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.
• Version 9.4 of Icon contains documentation in HTML form.
• Technical reports remain available for Version 9.3 implementations and the Version 9.3.3 program library.