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- The sample programs here are designed to introduce you to ProIcon.
- Documentation describing the programs is contained in comments at the
- beginning of each file.
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- Some of the programs are short text-processing utilities. If you're new to
- ProIcon, read through them to see how easy it is to write such tools.
-
- Also included is a somewhat larger program, "rsg.icn", that generates
- randomly selected sentences from a grammar that is provided from standard
- input. There are two sample grammars in the "Data" folder. You may find
- this program useful in learning how to redirect standard input and output
- and how to use options provided by a parameter string.
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- The program "parens.icn" also provides a good exercise in using parameter
- strings.
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- In addition to complete programs, there are two files, "getopt.icn" and
- "shuffle.icn", that contain useful library procedures. Pre-compiled
- intermediate files are included for these, although you may want to
- re-compile them to learn how to build libraries.
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- All of the programs here could benefit from extensions. That's a good way to
- get started with ProIcon.