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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:03:11 MST
  2. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  3. Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:56:38 GMT
  4. From: johnb02@ibm.net (John Burdick)
  5. Message-Id: <3s2i52$1mbm@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
  6. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  7. References: <1995Jun16.172604.22642@leeds.ac.uk>, <1995Jun17.174319.29735@nmt.edu>, <3s1fij$7r9@pipe.pipex.net>
  8. Subject: Re: Perl v. Icon
  9. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  10.  
  11. ian@pipex.net (Ian Phillipps) wrote:
  12.  
  13. >Generators are nice - if you know what's going on. If not, they can be
  14. >very puzzling, since the paradigm is unique to Icon.
  15.  
  16. I think "unique" is a little strong. Prolog uses backtrack goal
  17. seeking in a similar way. Lazy evaluation in Haskell is defined
  18. differently, but is similar in some of it's usage. Iterators in Sather
  19. are generators.
  20.  
  21. John
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