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Icon Dormant

Icon
KindProgramming language
Appeared1977
StatusDormant
CreatorRalph Griswold / University of Arizona
FamilySNOBOL
Sourcewww2.cs.arizona.edu ↗

SNOBOL's ideas rebuilt on conventional syntax — goal-directed evaluation where every expression can succeed or fail, and generators instead of loops.

Descended from SNOBOL
Created by Ralph Griswold
Predecessors SNOBOL

Ralph Griswold's Icon (1977) — SNOBOL's successor at Arizona — made goal-directed evaluation the control structure: every expression can succeed, fail, or suspend, with generators and backtracking built in.\n\nIt is the purest expression of 'search as language feature'; its string-scanning is the ancestor of modern pattern languages.

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Sources

  1. www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)