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Garry Roseman wrote:
... As a newbie I can tell you that I have found three great resources for learning Icon: ...
2) The Icon Programming Language Handbook by Thomas W. Christopher.  A gem of almost-mathematical precision. Explains some idioms and gives a viewpoint that complements the Griswold book.  This is a "must have" and that's not a problem because it's FREE.  <http://www.iit.edu/~tc/iconplh.htm>  This handbook has lots of very helpful examples.  Some problems are solved repeatedly using different techniques to show how you would do it using the different features of Icon. ...

Thanks for the kind words, Garry.  People can get to it with one fewer click from
     http://www.toolsofcomputing.com/freesoftware.htm
or directly from
     http://www.toolsofcomputing.com/iconprog.pdf

The IIT page may vanish after a while, since I've resigned from there effective Aug. 5th, 1999.

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Thomas W. Christopher -- [e-mail]
Operating Manager, Tools of Computing LLC. -- http://www.toolsofcomputing.com