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From: talmage@lti.com (David Talmage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ICON for the Amiga
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Date: 8 Feb 89 00:57:54 GMT
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Hi.

In <777@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, you ask about Icon for the Amiga.  I've
been using it for about 8 months, maybe a year.  You can get Version 6 from
one of the Fred Fish disks or you can get it from the University of
Arizona (Version 7 is out for UNIX and VMS; "soon" for Icon).  There's a
newsgroup devoted to Icon, comp.lang.icon, as well as a mailing list,
ICON-GROUP@arizona.edu, which forwards comp.lang.icon to places that don't
receive news.  You can join the mailing list by sending your name and
e-mail address to ICON-GROUP-REQUEST@arizona.edu. 

In case you don't know, Icon is a language for string and pattern
manipulation.  It has some nifty, non-conventional features (e.g.
generators and co-expressions) built into it.  Icon is the work of Dr.
Ralph Griswold, one of the authors of SNOBOL, and his students.


Regards,

David Talmage

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