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Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive facilities for
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processing strings and structures. Icon has several novel features,
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including expressions that may produce sequences of results, goal-directed
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evaluation that automatically searches for a successful result, and string
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scanning that allows operations on strings to be formulated at a high
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conceptual level.
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The language is described in R. E. Griswold and M. T. Griswold, The
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Icon Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
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second edition, 1990.
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1995-07-29 09:55:13 +00:00
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For more information or assistance, contact:
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Icon Project voice: (520) 621-6613
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Department of Computer Science fax: (520) 621-4246
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The University of Arizona
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P.O. Box 210077 icon-project@cs.arizona.edu
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Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
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U.S.A. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
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