In article <3C5CB5DB.7970FB10@u.arizona.edu> , Kevin Wampler 
<wam### [at] uarizonaedu>  wrote:

> In the current scene I'm working on I have been using Icon extensively
> to generate Pov code.

Don't even get me started on Icon.  With its random (well, random to any sane
person) sequences of characters being operators, it can only appear a useful
language to those who designed it.  For everybody else its useless syntax gets
in the way all time.  Readability of a programming language is the most
important asset, and the designers of Icon did a good job.  Given L is a list,
who could tell "every i:=1 to *L/2 do L[i]:=:L[-i]" reverses it?  Not that is
is to be considered obfuscated code at all, no, this is how it is presented in
books that want to teach the language!

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: fro### [at] iitedu

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