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The Icon programming language

by Griswold, Ralph E. · first published 1983

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edrx · Sep 29, 2021 · Recommends

"The Icon Programming Language". https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ftp/doc/lb1up.pdf
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wrp · Jun 23, 2022 · Recommends

…compilers) is pretty thin. I enjoyed reading these: 1. Peter John Brown. 1979. Writing Interactive Compilers and Interpreters. 2. Timothy Budd. 1987. A Little Smalltalk. 3. Ralph E. Griswold. 2000. The Icon Programming Language, 3e. 4. Pat Shaughnessy. 2013. Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals. This is a new one I haven't read yet, but it looks very practical: 5. Clinton L. Jeffery. 2021. Build…
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edrx · Oct 2, 2021 · Recommends

…links... (Btw, Icon - Snobol4's successor - was my favorite language for several years. When I tried to learn Snobol4 by myself in the university I couldn't understand its semantics, but the book "The Icon Programming Language" was superbly written and it explained generators and backtracking very well).
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