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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 1993 07:40:27 MST
  2. Date: 13 Dec 93 15:34:08 GMT
  3. From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!quads!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Richard L. Goerwitz)
  4. Organization: University of Chicago
  5. Subject: Re: Need help with (simple?) programming problem.
  6. Message-Id: <1993Dec13.153408.9174@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. References: <rfgCHyt15.Fpz@netcom.com>
  8. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  9. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  10. Status: R
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
  14. >
  15. >I have obtained Griswold's 2nd Edition book, and (believe it or not) I
  16. >already plowed most of the way through it (although I confess that I only
  17. >skimmed most of the parts relating to string scanning).  The book is well
  18. >written, which I appreciate greatly.
  19.  
  20. String scanning is, along with generators and backtracking, one of the
  21. salient features of Icon.  No brown belt until you pass this milestone
  22. :-).
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25.  
  26.    -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
  27.    goer@midway.uchicago.edu          rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
  28.