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Where did Icon come from?

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Where did Icon come from?

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Icon is the latest in a series of high-level programming languages designed to facilitate programming tasks involving strings and structures. The original language, SNOBOL, was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s. SNOBOL evolved into SNOBOL4, which is still in use. Subsequent languages were developed at the University of Arizona with support from the National Science Foundation. Although it has similar objectives and many similar capabilities, Icon bears little superficial resemblance to SNOBOL4. Icon implementations were developed by faculty, staff, and students at the University of Arizona, with significant contributions from volunteers around the world. An Icon history by Ralph and Madge Griswold appears in the preprints of the second History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II), ACM SIGPLAN Notices, March 1993 (Vol 28, No 3).