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Unicon (programming language)
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<p>Unicon is a <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from <a href="/facts/Icon_programming_language/J7QHUDqq">Icon</a> and a preprocessor for Icon called IDOL. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> as well as support for <a href="/facts/Object-oriented_programming/TxNMEcao">object-oriented programming</a>. Unicon began life as a merger of three popular Icon extensions: an OO preprocessor named Idol, a <a href="/facts/POSIX/mQkSt234">POSIX</a> filesystem and networking interface, and an <a href="/facts/Open_Database_Connectivity/2dV2Fm5j">ODBC</a> facility. The name is shorthand for "Unified Extended Dialect of Icon." </p>