freebsd-ports/lang/icon/pkg-descr
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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.
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.
WWW: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/