Editing Unicon (programming language) (section)

{{short description|Programming language descended from Icon}}
{{primary sources|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox programming language
 | name                   = Unicon
 | logo                   = 
 | file ext               = 
 | paradigm               = [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]], [[procedural programming|procedural]]
 | released               = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY}} -->
 | designer               = Clint Jeffery
 | developer              = 
 | latest release version = 
 | latest release date    = <!-- {{start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
 | latest preview version = 
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 | typing                 = 
 | implementations        = 
 | dialects               = 
 | influenced by          = [[Icon programming language|Icon]]
 | influenced             = 
 | operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]: [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Unix]]
 | license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
 | website                = {{url|http://unicon.sourceforge.net/}}
 | wikibooks              = 
}}
'''Unicon''' is a [[programming language]] designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from [[Icon programming language|Icon]] and a preprocessor for Icon called [[IDOL (programming language)|IDOL]]. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the [[operating system]] as well as support for [[object-oriented programming]]. Unicon began life as a merger of three popular Icon extensions: an OO preprocessor named Idol, a [[POSIX]] filesystem and networking interface, and an [[Open Database Connectivity|ODBC]] facility. The name is shorthand for "Unified Extended Dialect of Icon."