My history of learning Icon is,
Pre-Icon
AWK : My first programming Language
"What a wonderful structure! associative array is."
Icon : My second programming Language
1) List : "What a wonderful structure! list is."
2) Generator: "Who needs a generator? How to use a generator?
I'm enough with lists."
After one and half year,
"Oh! I missed wonderful features of the generator.
It's a natural way to process data."
3) Record : "Who needs a Record? How to use a Record?
I'm enough with lists."
After two years,
"Oh! I can use a Record in such a case."
4) Alternation : Recently,
"Oh! "|" sweeps down the spider web of "if then else" in my
programs."
<now>
5) Generator: "Can I use generators as filters like pipe/filter in O/S?
Such a method will make easy to combine procedures and
to process data streams."
<next>
6) Co-Expression: "What a complicated concept! I cannot understand."
("But I'll study Co-Expression.")
Icon has many excellent features, but it takes me a long time
to understand them.
Thanks,
Hiroshi Shinohara
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