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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:29:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Taybin Rutkin <trutkin@black.clarku.edu>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: Error messages
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote:
> "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> 1. Notation matters.
>
> Suppose that you have to show your Icon program to another person that have
> no slightest idea about the Icon and Snobol. Surely you will have serious
I think that the paradigm shift from procedural to logical is made easier
with Icon. The syntax is (and here I'm assuming that you mean operaters
and keywords and their respective order) much more familiar than
prolog. I found prolog to be this bizarre alien creature. It was really
out of my world. If by syntax you mean the operators, then the learning
curve is slightly lower than, say, PERL. Well, maybe not that high. But
there are many many operators.
Taybin Rutkin -- trutkin@black.clarku.edu
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