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Icon is a relativedescendant of snobol[[SNOBOL4]] and incorporatesincorporating excellent string processing mechanismscapabilities, built-in hash tables, success/failure based controls, dynamic storage, automatic type casting and coercion of values. Icon added more conventional procedural syntax, generator expressions, goal-directed evaluation that automatically searches for a successful result,results. and stringString scanning and matching superseded the pattern matching functionality of SNOBOL4.
 
Several extensions of Icon were developed to improve functionality. Many of these were unified with [[Unicon]]
 
==See Also==
* [[wp:Icon_(programming_language)|Wikipedia: Icon]]
* [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/index.htm Icon homepage]
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