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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:19:58 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:15:38 +0100
From: Ed <ceeech@cee.hw.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961017131459.908B-100000@savitar>
Organization: Heriot-Watt University
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <326219D2.41C67EA6@cee.hw.ac.uk>, <9610171307.aa21786@uk.ac.ed.tattoo>
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
I have the book and plent of stuff to be getting on with. Thanks to
everyone for their help.
Ed
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Ed C Henderson
ceeech@cee.hw.ac.uk
Heriot-Watt University
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 eddie@tattoo.ed.ac.uk wrote:
> In comp.lang.icon you write:
>
> >Hello, I am looking for some info on Pattern Matching in Icon, if any
> >one could help by e-mailing me privately I would be very grateful.
>
> Well I suppose you really need the official Icon book. There is very little
> else out there other than potted summaries which I don't think really give
> enough idea. On the other hand the book really only explains the language and
> doesn't have enough tutorial sections so you have to spend rather a lot of
> time reading about it before you can understand the power of the language.
> The problem is that the language is not well enough known for authors to write
> 'Idiots guide' etc. You have not been given an easy task I would say.
>
> If no-one else comes up with anything, the book is called "The ICON
> programming language (second ed)" by Griswold & Griswold (my copy is at home
> so I can't give the exact reference just now). You may be lucky enough to get
> one from your library (ours doesn't have the 2nd edition). If not you can
> order it from Waterstones (takes a while usually). Failing that I may be
> persuaded to lend you my copy.
>
> I don't know Miranda (I'm assuming your referring to the same project as your
> colleague who doesn't appear to understand news) so can't give any direct
> comparisons. Neither am I a complete expert on Icon but I do know it
> reasonably well and can possibly answer specific questions.
>
> Eddie
>