What is the motivation for Unicon?
We wish to develop, improve, and promote Icon-style goal-directed very high level languages. One way to do this is to do a new implementation of an existing language; Icon translators into C code and Java code are examples of this approach. Another way to do this is to design a new language that is not constrained by the syntax or semantics of an existing language; the Godiva programming language is (to some extent) an example this approach. Unicon pursues a third path: that of evolving an existing language to support new capabilities in a manner that is as compatible and consistent with the original design philosophy as possible.
