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Article #5043Re: Icon, was:Re: Discussions of languages (Was: Re: Modern langauges)
From: Bill 'Deus' Nixon
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 16:23
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 16:23
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Here at Pitt, one of the upper level CS courses uses Icon.
It was designed bascially for String processing and is a superset of
SNOBOL. Allows for structured programming (for you Pascal type people)
and symbolic manipulation of formulas. Seems like it would work good
for a parser.
I like the 'C' type statements - statements can succeed or fail, passing
along a value for each case.
Even tho it allows structured programming, I love having not to declare
my variable. I hate compiling my PASCAL or Modula-2 program, and have
the compiler yell at me for not declaring some stupid counter variable.
--
Bill 'Deus' Nixon One of the Univ. Of Pgh ZETS !
mail : wpnst@pittvms.BITNET
wpnst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!cadre!pitt!cisunx!wpnst From: wpnst@cisunx.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Icon, was:Re: Discussions of languages (Was: Re: Modern langauges) Message-ID: <6121@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 88 16:23:06 GMT References: <enea.2553> <1520@ogcvax.UUCP> <enea.2570> <1522@ogcvax.UUCP> <2582@enea.se> <3315@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <17327@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: wpnst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon) Organization: University of Pgh, Zets Lines: 21