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From: asente@Cascade.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Icon -- a worthy successor to SNOBOL
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 16:15:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 16:15:31 1985
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I've been doing a little programming in Icon lately and I might me
tempted to call it a worthy successor to APL with all those confusing
operators.  The worst part seems to be the operator precedence--you
have to parenthesize everything since it's impossible to remember all
the precedence levels and they aren't at all intuitive.  I'd have much
preferred just a few levels of precedence in addition to the ones we
all know and love, and then putting the unusual operators together in
them.

I wouldn't really call it "Snobol meets structured programming,"
because I find I do things quite differently than I do in Snobol.
After I've used it a little more I'll be able to give a real opinion on
the language; all I can say now is "Hard to learn."

	-paul asente
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