Yes... very familiar with it. It's been around for quite a while too...
probably about 15 years. The Icon book is one of the few language books
that rests on my desk, rather than the bookshelf.
A number of Icon's features will be added to REBOL as dialects... some day.
Very nice pattern handling.
-Carl
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> Brian Tiffin
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> Hello Tom,
>
> Welcome to REBOL land...Life here rocks...and it gets better
> every day.
>
> Anyway, you also want to check out
>
> http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
>
> Icon is authored by Ralph Griswold, the inventor of SNOBOL. It
> has features
> I've not found in other lingos.
> Goal-directed evaluation, generators, co-expressions to name a few.
>
> You can't be a well rounded multi-lingual programmer without exposing
> yourself to Icon (and of course REBOL).
>
> Later,
> Blue
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