Unicon "Citizens" are more than just "users", they have taken responsibility for the Unicon language by improving, maintaining, or porting the code and contributing their results in a way that will be useful to others.

Citizens are entitled to listing on this page, with a short paragraph of biographical information of their choosing. This page helps form our community identity. Names are in alphabetical order. If you aren't on the list and you are a citizen, it is a probably an oversight. :-) If you are not listed and want to be added, or are listed and want to be removed, or want to supply a biography, send e-mail to jeffery

Federico Balbi

Developer of the ODBC/SQL interface.

Nolan Clayton

Contributor to the Unicon IDE.

Sudarshan Gaikaiwari

Developer of snobol-style pattern datatype, along with operator overloading.

Jafar al Gharaibeh

Dr. al Gharaibeh developed the concurrent programming feature and has been an extensive contributor to the 3D facilities.

Clint Jeffery

Father of Unicon, his mission is to make Icon's core expression semantics useful in as many applications and to as many programmers as possible.

Susie Jeffery

Contributor to the GUI class library, including (especially) the editabletextlist widget.

Steve Lumos

Developer of the messaging facilities. Co-administrator of the Unicon sourceforge site and mailing list.

Kazimir Majorinc

Founder of The Generator.

Naomi Martinez

Developer of Unicon's 3D graphics facilities.

Shamim Mohamed

Developer of the POSIX interface, coauthor of the Unicon book; he coined the name "Unicon".

Robert Parlett

Author of Unicon's package mechanism. Developer of many class libraries and the IVIB interface tool. Coauthor of the Unicon book chapter on graphic interfaces.

Ray Pereda

Ported Berkeley YACC to Icon; his iyacc is used in the Unicon translator. Coauthor of the Unicon book chapters on compilers and genetic algorithms.

Katie Ray

Author of the Ulex lexical analyzer generator.

Hani bani Salameh

Contributor to the Unicon IDE.

Barry Schwartz

Primary contributor to AMD64 port, including its co-expression switch.

Ziad al Sharif

The first Unicon Ph.D. and author of the UDB source level debugger.

Phillip Thomas

Chief critic, user, tester, and visionary supporter.

Ken Walker

Honorary Unicon citizen who developed iconc, the Icon optimizing compiler which forms the basis for "unicon -C" on some Unicon platforms.

Steve Wampler

Technical reviewer and major contributor to multiple epochs of Icon and Unicon.

Mike Wilder

Wrote uniconc, a port of iconc to support almost all of Unicon on Linux. Implemented vector hashing code which improves type inferencing scalability.