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- From: cjeffery@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu.UUCP (Clint Jeffery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: New Implementation of Icon with OS/2 Graphics Support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.110041.4917@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:00:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.012741.18426@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- >>The latest version of the Icon programming language, 8.7/8, is now
- >>available for the following platforms:
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- From article <1993Jan24.012741.18426@news.columbia.edu>, by mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green):
- > What is it?
-
- Icon is a high-level general-purpose procedural language with a lot of neat
- goodies, especially string scanning facilities, automatic storage management
- (garbage collection), flexible built-in data structures, and now
- easy-to-program windows/graphics/mouse facilities. Ease of programming is
- one of Icon's main features, so it is used a lot for prototyping and for
- utilities and quickie one-shot file manipulations. Syntax is somewhere in
- between Pascal and C, with semi-colons optional, and various radical
- language features that would take awhile to describe. I'd be happy to
- answer further questions by e-mail, or send them to
- icon-project@cs.arizona.edu.
- --
- Clint Jeffery - cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu
-