230112 Programmieren für die Psycholinguistik: ICON (S) (WiSe 2009/2010)

“Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive facilities for processing strings and structures. Icon has several novel features, including expressions that may produce sequences of results, goal-directed evaluation that automatically searches for a successful result, and string scanning that allows operations on strings to be formulated at a high conceptual level. Icon also provides high-level graphics facilities.

Although Icon has extensive facilities for processing strings and structures, it also has a full repertoire of computational facilities. It is suitable for a wide variety of applications. Some examples are:
text analysis
text editing
document formatting
artificial intelligence
expert systems
rapid prototyping
symbolic mathematics
text generation
data laundry
There are public-domain implementations of Icon for the Macintosh, MS-DOS, many UNIX systems, and VAX/VMS.” (vgl. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/)
Soviel zur Reklame der Macher. Neben diversen Tutorials gibt es alle Handbücher kostenlos zum Download (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/links.htm):
The Icon Programming Language
Graphics Programming in Icon
The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language
The Icon Handbook
Im WiSe2009/10 werden die Grundlagen der Programmierung in ICON gelegt. Wir planen aber für das SoSe2010 einen Programmierkurs speziell für die Simulation von Sprachproduktions- und Sprachrezeptionsmodellen.

Literaturangaben

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/)