When the Icon Analyst started in 1990, some of the subjects formerly covered by the Newsletter moved to the Analyst. In recent years, as the Icon language and its implementation matured, there has been less material for the Newsletter. At the same time, the wide availability of the Web has made it possible to publish news in a timely fashion. The Newsletter has served its purpose and run its course. The next issue, scheduled for June 2000, will be the last.
Source code is available for Icon and for the library.
Binaries of Icon are available for several common UNIX platforms. Precompiled ucode files of the library procedures are also available. For the Icon source code, this is primarily a maintenance release. The code has been reworked and simplified to increase portability. Subsequent reads return the names of the files contained in the directory.