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A tutorial for the Icon programming language

Icon is a large, full-featured, high-level programming language. Also, some of its features---especially the way expressions work---are very different than a lot of other languages.

To get a taste of Icon, work your way through this tutorial.

• To see a small but complete Icon program, see Icon says hello.
• For instructions on using the Icon system, see compiling and running an Icon program.
• An introduction to basic Icon syntax starts at doing simple arithmetic in Icon.
• Some of the important Icon features for text processing are introduced in text processing in Icon.
• The rich yet elegant Icon features for building complex data structures are introduced in using data structures in Icon.