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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re:  Icon as a teaching language
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Date: 3 Jan 91 07:07:58 GMT
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In article <9012261840.AA07710@june.cs.washington.edu> Bill Griswold writes:
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>>With the Christmas vacation upon us and a 12-year old around the
>>house, I wonder if anyone has had experience with Icon as a first
>>structured language....
...
>Unfortunately Icon isn't interactively interpretive, so you can't
>run-as-you-program.  I've written a little line-oriented interpreter loop
>for Icon, but it changes the syntax and doesn't allow procedures....

Has anyone written an Icon interpreter?  (Bill, could you post yours??)
It surely is the case that my son functions better using interpreters.
I also would not mind the ability to test out code fragments using an
Icon interpreter, even a rough and fairly fragmentary one.

-Richard (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu)