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From: jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.UK (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Why Icon?
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Date: 29 Aug 89 20:57:06 GMT
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> What do you use Icon for and why? What don't you
> use Icon for and why? 

I like Icon, but I don't use it very much because it's not (or at least
wasn't) interactive.  I like to be able to define and call procedures
interactively, like I can in Lisp or Prolog.