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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 10 Jan 1994 09:49:12 MST
Date: 6 Jan 94 20:11:01 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!msuinfo!uchinews!quads!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: Re: ICON FAQ, or just plain info!
Message-Id: <1994Jan6.201101.25901@midway.uchicago.edu>
References: <2gfjc5$qv4@crchh972.bnr.ca>, <1994Jan6.101955.23906@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
>>Greetings! What is ICON, and what does it resemble, and is there a shareware
>>compiler,
>
>>and is it fun, Yes.
>>interesting, Yes.
>>easy, Yes.
>>strongly typed, You must be joking.
Icon is very strongly typed. At any given time the type of a given
variable or value is always known. Type conversions are done in a
relatively high-level and sophisticated fashion. Static typing and
strong typing are different things.
Mine is just an opinion of another user, so don't take this as gospel!
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer