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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 9 May 1993 05:54:16 MST
Date: 4 May 93 02:22:48 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!uchinews!ellis!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: Re: Intro to Icon
Message-Id: <1993May4.022248.20092@midway.uchicago.edu>
References: <1993May3.191852.19708@walter.bellcore.com>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
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norman@flaubert.bellcore.com (Norman Ramsey) writes:
>
>I'm going to give my organization a one-hour talk on Icon, with an
>emphasis on using Icon to build prototypes quickly. Does anyone have
>any suggestions (or religious beliefs) about what should be included
>in such a talk?
Yeah. Two things:
1) Explain to them right away that Icon yields elegant solutions
for poking at the conceptual foundations of programming, and
for doing general nonnumeric computing. It's not what you use
for mundane system administration problems on a specific plat-
form.
2) Start them right away on goal-directed evaluation and on string
scanning. Show them its elegance. If you start on basic data
structures and syntax, they'll think it's a cut-down Pascal, &
miss the whole point.
Please tell us how it goes, and if you have any text that comes with your
presentation, please let us know!
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer