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From: "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Scanning question
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ernobe wrote:
>
> Thank-you for your very informative post. This particular issue with
> the if statement was the cause of my problems. I suspect that I must
> be missing informatin on facts as basic as this, since I hadn't come
> across it in the documentation. Perhaps it is something one learns
> in the first year of computer science courses in the university. I
> found Icon on the Web after nearly a year of searching for and trying
> several languages, particularly Forth and Euphoria. I have the
> general impression that most of the documentation is written for
> advanced students.
The homepage (and home) for Icon is
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
You will find tutorials, newsletters and all sorts of useful stuff there.
You will also find details of a book "The Icon Programming Language", third
edition, and although I don't have this book (I've had the 1st edition and
currently use a well-thumbed 2nd edition) I'm sure it's excellent. As a
bonus it's now available for free download as a PDF file. If it's anything
like the 1st two editions (and it will be) then it will be very readable
from chapter one which will take you through in tutorial style. The chapters
are suitable for reference purposes once you've learnt, and there is also a
comprehensive description of all the functions.
Truly, you won't go wrong by handing over some money for this book. Take the
time to download and when you find yourself impressed, spend the money for
the convenience of a book.