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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 1993 13:12:34 MST
Date: 6 Dec 93 22:04:37 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!rfg@decwrl.dec.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Subject: Capsule summary of the ICON language wanted
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Has anyone got anything approximating an "executive summary" kind of
description of the ICON programming language?
If so, could you please E-mail it to me?
Basically, my situation is this... I know *nothing* about ICON other that
the fact that it was inspiried/implemented by the same fellow who developed
SNOBOL. On that basis alone, I assume it's good for programming tasks
involving the manipulations of strings.
As it happens, I need to do some rather fancy kinds of text manipulation,
so I'm just wondering if ICON will be the right tool for the job.
(It is at least plausible that ICON would actually be overkill for the
kinds of things I need to do, and I may end up just using m4 or something
like that.)
So if anyone could provide me with a capsule summary of ICON, I'd really
appreciate it. In particular, I'd like to know:
o In a nutshell, what is ICON?
o What kinds of programming tasks is ICON especially well suited
for?
o What kinds of programming tasks would you refuse to do in any
language OTHER THAN ICON?
Please send any replies to me via E-mail, as I am NOT a regular reader of
this newsgroup (yet).
Thanks.
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