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From: dean@ns.network.com (Dean C. Gahlon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Language 'tutors'
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Date: 17 May 91 18:36:46 GMT
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In article <16.May.91..08:57:28.bst..060957@EMAS-A> R.J.Hare@edinburgh.ac.uk writes:
>Has anyone used Icon to develop 'tutors' for learning foreign languages
>in any way - for example, vocabulary drills, simple phrase translation,
>etc.?
> 
>If yes, are such programs available?
> 
>Thanks.
> 
>Roger Hare.

Yes, as a matter of fact. I have a couple of Japanese tutoring programs
written in Icon. They're not very fancy (and in fact don't use an incredible
number of the more advanced features of the language (i.e., I suspect that
they could be written to be better)), but they work.  If I remember, I will
try to upload them to this machine and then post them on the network
sometime soon.

						Dean C. Gahlon
						dean@ns.network.com