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diff --git a/lang/icon/pkg-descr b/lang/icon/pkg-descr index a66e0a4df811..f1fd208f40ac 100644 --- a/lang/icon/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/icon/pkg-descr @@ -1,25 +1,19 @@ - Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive -facilities for processing strings and structures. Icon has -several novel features, including expressions that may produce -sequences of results, goal-directed evaluation that automatically -searches for a successful result, and string scanning that allows -operations on strings to be formulated at a high conceptual -level. + Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive facilities for +processing strings and structures. Icon has several novel features, +including expressions that may produce sequences of results, goal-directed +evaluation that automatically searches for a successful result, and string +scanning that allows operations on strings to be formulated at a high +conceptual level. - Icon emphasizes high-level string processing and a design phi- -losophy that allows ease of programming and short, concise pro- -grams. Storage allocation and garbage collection are automatic in -Icon, and there are few restrictions on the sizes of objects. -Strings, lists, and other structures are created during program -execution and their size does not need to be known when a program -is written. Values are converted to expected types automati- -cally; for example, numeral strings read in as input can be used -in numerical computations without explicit conversion. Icon has -an expression-based syntax with reserved words; in appearance, -Icon programs resemble those of Pascal and C. - -The language is described in R. E. Griswold and M. T. Griswold, The -Icon Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, -NJ, second edition, 1990. +The language is described in R. E. Griswold and M. T. Griswold, The +Icon Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, +second edition, 1990. +For more information or assistance, contact: +Icon Project voice: (520) 621-6613 +Department of Computer Science fax: (520) 621-4246 +The University of Arizona +P.O. Box 210077 icon-project@cs.arizona.edu +Tucson, AZ 85721-0077 +U.S.A. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ |