MYankowski@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (11/13/90)
Could someone please provide more information on the ICON Analyst? Mike DOCKMASTER
ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (11/13/90)
The Icon Analyst is a technical newsletter published 6 times a year by the Icon Project. It is 12 pages, 8.5x11". It covers various aspects of the Icon programming language, mostly related to programming. The editors are Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, the same as for the Icon Newsletter, which features less tehcnical material of a more topical interest. The first issue of the Analyst was published in August, 1990. The third issue is presently being prepared for mailing. Articles so far have covered "getting started", memory monitoring, benchmarking expressions, expression evaluation, syntactic pitfalls, program readability, writing portable programs, string scanning, generators, and so forth. There's also a regular "programming tips" feature. A subscription to the Icon Analyst is $25 per year, which includes first-class postage in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There is an additional charge of $10 per year for overseas subscriptions, which are sent by first-class airmail. Persons wishing to subscribe should make checks payable to The University of Arizona and send them to Icon Project Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A. Mastercard and Visa also are acceptable. Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721 +1 602 621 6609 ralph@cs.arizona.edu uunet!arizona!ralph