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authorJames E. Housley <jeh@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-14 13:11:57 +0000
committerJames E. Housley <jeh@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-14 13:11:57 +0000
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-ICI is a C-like, high level language originally developed by Tim
-Long and placed into the public domain. ICI marries C's expression
-syntax, control structures and overall feel, with a dynamic, garbage
-collected, object-based, data model.
+ICI is a C-like, high level language originally developed by Tim Long
+and placed into the public domain. ICI marries C's expression syntax,
+control structures and overall feel, with a dynamic, garbage
+collected, object-based, data model. Version introduces a cleaner
+class system for OO programming and refines the language.
-ICI is typically used as a scripting-like language in the fashion
-of Perl, Python, TCL and other such languages. ICI can be called
-from C and the language itself can be extended allowing applications
-to provide domain specific functions, types and operators for use
-in their ICI programs. Embedding in an application also allows the
+ICI is typically used as a scripting-like language in the fashion of
+Perl, Python, TCL and other such languages. ICI can be called from C
+and the language itself can be extended allowing applications to
+provide domain specific functions, types and operators for use in
+their ICI programs. Embedding in an application also allows the
application to make use of ICI's efficient object system which
provides many useful facilities.