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  6. From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
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  8. Subject: Icon inspires enhancements to C#
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  18.  
  19. Icon users may find the following link interesting:
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  22. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
  23. t/html/vbconCProgrammingLanguageFutureFeatures.asp
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  25. The article discusses improvements that will be made to C# and other MS
  26. languages. Check out the section on iterators; the author cites Icon as one
  27. of the languages that they have studied that benefits from an iterator
  28. operator.
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  30. Now if Microsoft could only see the virtue of generators and backtracking...
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