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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Babe in the Woods (long)
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:33:18 GMT
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In article <5472@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) writes:
>In article <31372@nigel.ee.udel.edu> boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) writes:
>>I've been keeping an eye on this group out of rabid curiosity, but have
>>yet to see an general information posting, so forgive the waste of
>>bandwidth: what is icon? Is it a publicly available language? Does its
  [more deleted...]
>
  [lots of good info deleted, for brevity...]
>
>	I think you may also be able to anon. ftp  stuff from UA,
>also, but I don't know the address.  

I picked up up with ftp several months ago.  The address at that time
was cs.arizona.edu [128.196.128.118]

>
>	The definitive book is 
>
>	The Icon Programming Language
>	Ralph E. Griswold & Madge T. Griswold, Prentice-Hall, 1983.
>	ISBN 0-13-449777-5.
>
>	I believe an updated book is on the way but I don't know if
>it's been released yet.  The book describes version 5; the current
>release is version 8.

The new book is same title, but Second Edition.  Same publisher, 
1990, ISBN 0-13-447889-4.  Describes Version 8.


>	Hope this answers your questions.A

     Ditto for the additional answers.  By the way, I think that I
heard somewhere that Version 8 is NOT running under MS-DOS, but have
not had that confirmed.  Anyone know??

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