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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 18:04:30 MST
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 11:14:48 MST
From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
Message-Id: <199507081814.AA07120@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
To: icon-group
Subject: The Icon Analyst
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
The Icon Analyst is a technically oriented newsletter dedicated to
in-depth coverage of the Icon programming language.
The Icon Analyst is published bi-monthly. Here's the contents of the
first 30 issues.
Issue 1, August 1990
Launching the Analyst ... 1
Version 8 Overview ... 1-3
Getting Started with Icon ... 3-6
Programming Tips ... 6
Memory Monitoring ... 7-10
Benchmarking Expressions ... 10-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 2, October 1990
Expression Evaluation ... 1-2
Syntactic Pitfalls ... 3-5
Memory Monitoring ... 5-9
Programming Tips ... 9
Benchmarking Expressions ... 10-11
From the Wizards ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 3, December 1990
Program Readability ... 1
Writing Portable Icon Programs ... 2-4
String Scanning ... 5-7
Generators ... 8-10
Programming Tips ... 11
From the Wizards ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 4, February 1991
Programs that Write Programs ... 1-2
Writing Scanning Expressions ... 2-5
Large Integers ... 5-6
Memory Utilization ... 7-10
From the Wizards ... 10-11
Programming Tips ... 11
Thanks and Credits ... 11-12
Feedback ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 5, April 1991
String Scanning Examples ... 1-6
Pattern Matching ... 6-10
Gedanken Debugging ... 10
Programming Tips ... 11-12
Subscription Renewal ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 6, June 1991
Modeling String Scanning ... 1-2
Pointer Semantics ... 2-8
Evaluation Sandwiches ... 8-10
Program Termination ... 10-11
Programming Tips ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 7, August 1991
String Synthesis ... 1
Variant Translators ... 2-5
Result Sequences ... 5-8
Procedure Libraries ... 8-11
Corrections ... 12
Programming Tips ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 8, October 1991
String Synthesis ... 1-2
An Imaginary Icon Computer ... 2-6
Augmented Assignment Operations ... 7-8
The Icon Compiler ... 8-11
Programming Tips ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 9, December 1991
Bogus Expressions ... 1-2
A String Evaluator ... 2-4
String Allocation ... 4-7
Type Inference in the Icon Compiler ... 7-11
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 10, February 1992
Getting to the System ... 1-2
Procedural Encapsulation ... 3-4
The Anatomy of a Program ... 4-9
Writing Bullet-Proof Programs ... 9-11
Programming Tips ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 11, April 1992
Data Representation: A Case Study ... 1-5
Modeling Icon Functions ... 5-7
Command-Line Arguments ... 7-10
Programming Tips ... 11
From Our Readers ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 12, June 1992
Exercises ... 1
Anatomy of a Program ... 2-4
Inside the Icon Compiler ... 4-9
Programming Tips ... 9-11
Looking Ahead ... 11
Reader Feedback ... 12
Issue 13, August 1992
Face Lift for the Analyst ... 1
Solutions to Exercises ... 1-4
An Introduction to X-Icon ... 5-10
Programming Tips ... 10-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 14, October 1992
Reader Feedback ... 1
Arrays ... 2-4
Idiomatic Programming ... 4-8
Multi-Thread Icon ... 8-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 15, December 1992
Idiomatic Programming ... 1-5
Monitoring Icon Programs ... 6-10
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 16, February 1993
Program Visualization ... 1-8
Sparse Arrays ... 9-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 17, April 1993
Lost Languages -- SL5 ... 1-7
Drawing in X-Icon ... 7-11
Subscription Renewal ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 18, June 1993
Lost Languages -- Rebus ... 1-4
Text in X-Icon ... 4-7
Anatomy of a Program ... 8-11
From the Wizards ... 12
Subscription Renewal ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 19, August 1993
Lost Languages -- Seque ... 1-4
Handling Events in X-Icon ... 4-5
Anatomy of a Program ... 6-10
Programming Tips ... 10-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 20, October 1993
Exercises ... 1
Icon Made Difficult ... 1-2
Dealing with Windows in X-Icon ... 3-5
Piped Scanning... 6-9
Solutions to Exercises ... 9-10
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 21, December 1993
Returning Multiple Values ... 1-4
Graphic Contexts in X-Icon ... 5-7
Procedures with Memory ... 8-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 22, February 1994
Procedures with Memory ... 1-4
Color in X-Icon ... 5-7
Programmer-Defined Control Operations ... 8-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 23, April 1994
Programmer-Defined Control Operations ... 1-4
Color in X-Icon ... 5-7
Meta-Variant Translators ... 8-10
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 24, June 1994
Handline Images in X-Icon ... 1-2
From the Library ... 2-6
Turtle Graphics ... 6-10
Programming Tips ... 10-11
A Word of Thanks ... 12
Reflections ... 12
What's Coming Up .. 12
Issue 25, August 1994
From the Library ... 1-5
Anatomy of a Program ... 5-9
From the Wizards ... 10
Programming Tips ... 10-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 26, October 1994
Random Numbers ... 1-3
Trivia Quiz ... 3-4
Lindenmayer Systems ... 4-9
Answers to the Trivia Quiz ... 9
Cheap Tricks ... 9-11
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 27, December 1994
Lindenmayer Systems ... 1-5
Static Analysis of Icon Programs ... 5-11
Programming Tips ... 11-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 28, February 1995
String Invocation ... 1-4
Random Number Generators ... 4-6
Lindenmayer Systems ... 6-9
Dynamic Analysis of Icon Programs ... 9-12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 29, April 1995
New Area Code ... 1
Procedure and Operator Values ... 1-3
Applications of String Invocation ... 3-6
Curiosity or Problem? ... 6
From the Library ... 7-9
Dynamic Analysis of Icon Programs ... 10-12
Subscription Renewal ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
Issue 30, June 1995
Substriction Renewal ... 1
The Versum Problem ... 1-4
From the Wizards ... 5-6
Bogus Expressions ... 6
Dynamic Analysis ... 6-11
Programming Tips ... 12
What's Coming Up ... 12
A one-year (six issue) subscription to the Icon Analyst is $25 in the
United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is $35 to other countries.
To get a free sample copy of the Analyst, to subscribe, or to purchase
back issues contact the Icon Project:
Icon Project
Department of Computer Science
Gould-Simpson Building
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
Voice: (520) 621-6613
FAX: (520) 621-4246
Electronic mail: icon-order@cs.arizona.edu