The Icon Programming Languages

by Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold

Book Overview

Icon is a general purpose programming language much more powerful than C, C++, or other languages for prototyping, text processing, and manipulating data structures. This edition covers the new Icon Version 9, which offers many features and enhancements. Icon was developed by Ralph Griswold in the early 1980s, an outgrowth of SNOBOL he pioneered at Bell Labs in the late 1960s. Public domain Icon compilers are available for Windows, DOS, Macintosh,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573980013
• ISBN13: 9781573980012
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Icon- minimum effort programming

The book presents this beautiful higher-level programming language in a clear and concise way. The capabilities of language and all its non-standart features and concepts are introduced at a set pace that makes a good reading even if you don't intend to write programs in Icon. Icon runs on almost all popular platforms and is a time saving general purpouse language with smart graphics capabilities. The book is writen by the developers of the Icon language, and it is the most complete reference for it.

The Icon programming language 'bible'. Excellent.

Icon is a mature, general-purpose programming language which is available for free on many platforms. It has a rich set of types: integers (of arbitrary size), reals, strings, lists, sets, tables, and records, together with an interesting goal-directed evaluation mechanism. The book is clear and user-friendly. Some prior programming experience necessary.

Icon is the Swiss Army Knife of Programming Languages

Icon is a public domain pattern matching language follow-on to Snobol4 that runs everywhere(unix, windows, dos, mac). This book has all the documentation you need to learn the language. Get the entire Icon website on CDROM with the book Graphics Programming in Icon, by Griswold, Jeffery & Townsend. ISBN 1-57398-009-9