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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:33:33 -0500
To: rjhare@ed.ac.uk, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
From: Chris Tenaglia <cdt@post.its.mcw.edu>
Subject: Re: Icon Talk
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Greetings,
I also have a slide set. Actually two. One I did in
1991 on plain transparencies. The other in powerpoint
is about 80% complete. But mine were much too long.
I think mine focus on teaching programming principles
using icon as the medium.
The features I push are : cleanness and consistency of
the language. No end of statement delimiters to confuse
things. A great software chip library (IPL + more).
Speed and ease of development. The lack of deep hooks
in the OS is a feature to me. Less chance of mucking
up the entire host. Availability, low cost, and reliability.
Chris Tenaglia, system manager
Medical College of Wisconsin
At 03:43 PM 9/18/97 BST, Roger Hare wrote:
>At last, after about 10 years, I have managed to persuade my
>colleagues (or some of them) to let me tell them about Icon in a
>short departmental seminar. I have about 30 minutes, with slides.
>What features of Icon do folks think I should present in order to
>convince them to start using Icon?
>
>Obviously, I have my own ideas, but any others are welcome.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Roger Hare
>
>