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diff --git a/lang/icon/DESCR b/lang/icon/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1aed3dd67f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/icon/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive +facilities for processing strings and structures. Icon has +several novel features, including expressions that may produce +sequences of results, goal-directed evaluation that automatically +searches for a successful result, and string scanning that allows +operations on strings to be formulated at a high conceptual +level. + + Icon emphasizes high-level string processing and a design phi- +losophy that allows ease of programming and short, concise pro- +grams. Storage allocation and garbage collection are automatic in +Icon, and there are few restrictions on the sizes of objects. +Strings, lists, and other structures are created during program +execution and their size does not need to be known when a program +is written. Values are converted to expected types automati- +cally; for example, numeral strings read in as input can be used +in numerical computations without explicit conversion. Icon has +an expression-based syntax with reserved words; in appearance, +Icon programs resemble those of Pascal and C. + +The language is described in R. E. Griswold and M. T. Griswold, The +Icon Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, +NJ, second edition, 1990. |