ICON Programming for Humanists

Programming in Icon; Part I — Programming with Generators Programming in Icon; Part I — Programming with Generators

1. Introduction The Icon programming language [1] contains a number of features that are unusual and that are not found in most other programming languages. As a result, Icon encourages programming techniques that are distinctly different from those that are possible in more conventional programming languages. Not all of these techniques are obvious. Indeed, experience with other programming la...

Humans & humanists

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Workshop on the Icon Programming Language

A workshop related to the Icon programming language took place at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona on July 26-29, 1988. Steve Wampler, who initially suggested a meeting on Icon, and who organized the workshop, served as host. Twenty-eight persons were invited to participate, including the Icon Project group at The University of Arizona and others closely associated with I...

Programming in Icon ; Part II — Programming with Co - Expressions

1. Introduction This report is the second in a series that deals with various aspects of programming in Icon. The first report [1] dealt with generators. Co-expressions are the topic of this second report for two reasons: (1) they derive their utility from generators, and (2) they seem to present more problems to programmers than other features of Icon. The first two parts of this report treat ...

Type Inference in the Icon Programming Language