The Description for this book, The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language, will be forthcoming.

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Icon is the programming language of choice for applications in the humanities. An ideal option for those whose main interest or research areas is the written word, Icon emphasizes proper programming principles; and at the same time strikes a reasonable balance between structure and freedom. Icon Programming for Humanists teaches the principles of the Icon language in a very task-oriented fashion. This book emphasizes project that might interest the student of texts and language, and Icon features are instilled incidentally to this. To aid the learning process, actual program are exemplified and analysed to provide illustrations that readers can imitate and apply to their own projects and programs.

Icon is a general purpose programming language, much more powerful than C, C++, or other languages for prototyping, text processing, and manipulating data structures. This edition covers the new Icon Version 9, which offers many new features and enhancements. Anyone studying this unique language will want to have this latest edition of the "Icon bible".