5.0562 Qs: Legal DBMS; Icon (2/44)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 4 Jan 1992 14:35:22 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0562. Saturday, 4 Jan 1992.
(1) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 92 16:09 EST (26 lines)
From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" <T3B@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Request for contacts: Institute of State and Law, Moscow
(2) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 11:04 MST (18 lines)
From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Icon
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 92 16:09 EST
From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" <T3B@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Request for contacts: Institute of State and Law, Moscow
On a recent trip to Moscow, Peter Olenick (Princeton) and I visited the
Institute of State and Law, whose computer has recently been connected
to the network being organized by Alexandra Belyaeva. The Institute is
seeking contact with researchers using computers to do legal
scholarship. For example, the Institute is currently compiling a full
text database for statutes of the former Soviet Union. There are
approximately a million statutes.
If you are aware of similar research on large databases, especially
those compiling statutes, please help the Institute for State and Law
establish e-mail contact.
The director of the project is Marina M. Karelina, Department Chief,
Institute of State and Law, Academy of Science, Moscow
<marina@isl.msk.su>. Please copy initial correspondence to Tom Benson
<t3b@psuvm.bitnet>.
Tom Benson
Penn State University
(814-865-3461)
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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 11:04 MST
From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Icon
While reading through this month's copy of Byte magazine I came upon an
article about the SNOBOL language that I found quite interesting. It
reminded me of a HUMANIST discussion of a few years back about the ICON
language. At the time I was working with C and trying to finish my
dissertation so I did not feel that I had the time to experiment with
any new languages. Right now I still have not got a lot of free time
but I am working primarily with the Clipper database language and would
like to try something else for a change. Can anyone tell me how I could
obtain a low cost version of ICON for a MS-DOS platform?
Stan Beeler Dept. of English The University of Calgary UNCAMULT