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General Information:
This area contains material related to the Icon programming language.
All material here is in the public domain.
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Icon is a high-level, general-purpose programming language with
a large repertoire of features for processing strings of characters
and structures. For more information, visit the Icon web site,
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon
If you're a newcomer to Icon, be sure you download documentation for
running Icon -- the details depend on the platform. See the README
file in the doc area as noted below.
The subdirectories here are:
binaries Executable binaries (only) for different platforms
contrib User-contributed material; not tested by us
data Data for program construction and testing
doc Documentation
historic Past versions of source code for Icon packages
imt Icon meta-translators
library Icon program library
mticon MT Icon (multi-thread Icon and instrumentation)
newsgrp Icon newsgroup archives
packages Program packages for different implementations.
Some contain source, while others do not.
tests Standard tests for Icon.
See the README files in these subdirectories for more information.
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