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Nascent “Verse” language has succeed / fail expression evaluation

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Dave Yost

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Dec 17, 2022, 8:32:03 PM12/17/22
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I think this is very exciting. Could this be the first language to build on the shoulders of Icon?

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Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language (Simon Peyton Jones)
(This link starts playing at 11:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832JF1o7Ck8&t=690s
About a minute later (12:24) he gets a question:
“Should I understand this as being like Icon?”

Who would be the best person for the Verse team to talk with about this, so they can benefit from fully understanding the lessons learned from Icon as it is and as it might have been in hindsight?
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