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New Implementation of the Icon Language
Overview Since its conception in the mid-1970’s, the Icon programming language has received a great deal of interest due to its rich set of built-in data types, its clean string-handling facilities, and its powerful combination of generators and goal-directed evaluation [GG97, GG96]. Icon is available for virtually every significant computer architecture and operating system [Ico]. Until now, every available implementation was based on the same source code written in the C programming language [GG86]. Using Java, we have reimplemented Icon to produce a new implementation called Jcon. An object-oriented design yields a runtime system that is much shorter, simpler, and easier to understand. Although this particular system is specifically tailored to Icon, the techniques are equally well-suited to implementing any dynamically typed language.
| Publisher | University of Arizona Computer Science Department | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | October 1999 | Downloads | 1 |
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