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