[net.lang] info wanted on obtaining ICON for UNIX

dyer (03/28/83)

In "The ICON Programming Language" by Ralph and Madge Griswold, a new book
much in the style of Kernighan and Ritchie (that's a compliment!),
the authors mention Version 5 of the language, written in C and
running under UNIX V7.

I am most interested in obtaining a copy of this implementation.
Is U of Arizona on the net?  Do they have a distribution policy?

I would also enjoy hearing comments on the language and its implementations.
ICON seems to have solved many of the problems with SNOBOL IV--
it has "standard" control structures, and modern goal-directed
primitives.  Interestingly, the language (and its presentation in
the book) seems to have absorbed a C/UNIX-like flavor, much the way
the original book on SNOBOL IV reeked of IBM and JCL!

Steve Dyer
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