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Article #4611Let's actually talk about languages, here!
From: drw
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1987 15:30
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1987 15:30
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Have any of you out there played with Icon? I've used it for a program (to solve a real problem) that does quite a lot of string processing (the only other choices were C and Basic, so Icon's string-processing was quite a boon). It seems to me that the "generator" features were less useful than I would have expected -- only the simplest loops could be elminated. Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu
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