Icon

Last Updated: 10/26/2018 12:00:00 AM
Site: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/

Icon is a historically important programming language that builds on SNOBOL to extend its utility to groups like humanists.

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Creator(s): Ralph Griswald

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Type of analysis: Programming
Type of license: Free
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Software you Download and Install
Ease of Use: Moderate
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential Development sustained to present
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

More information on Icon, its use and its relation to ProIcon is available in the following articles:

Corre, Alan D. \"Technical Reviews: ProIcon.\" Computers and the Humanities 24.4 (1990): 301-303. Web.

Griswold, Ralph E. and Madge T. Griswold. \"History of the Icon Programming Language.\" History of Programming Languages---II. Ed. Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gibson, Jr. New York: ACM, 1996. 599-624. Web.

Olson, Mark. \"Beyond SNOBOL: The Icon Programming Language.\" Computers and the Humanities 27.1 (1987): 61-66. Web.

Olson, Mark. \"Icon Version 7 Reviewed.\" ACH Newsletter 10.2 (1988): 5. Print.

Bennett Kuwan Tchoh

Icon is mentioned in this research abstract in XML format https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lehkost/ToolXtractor/master/data/xml/2015/ROCKWELL_Geoffrey_Talking_About_Programming_in_the_DIgi.xml

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