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protomyth on Feb 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strangest Programming Language Feature?

The control structures in Icon are not quite what you would expect and qualify as strange: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)

raldi on Feb 1, 2014 [–]

I don't see what you mean; could you spell it out?

protomyth on Feb 1, 2014 | [–]

I thought the wikipedia article could explain it better than I, but here are some more references:

http://blogs.kde.org/2006/10/21/ralph-griswold-icon-language...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=104659

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69724/tr-99-64.ps

look at Goal-directed evaluation of icon

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