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Oral history interview with William Mitchell

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Mitchell discusses his introduction to Icon through his use of SPITBOL. He describes the process of making Icon compatible to various environments and notes the types of documentation and tools that are produced. He talks about several research assistants that he worked with on the Icon project. Mitchell discusses the usability of Icon in a software development environment and describes the use of C in conjunction with Icon.

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Transcript, 26 pp.

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William Mitchell, OH 203. Oral history interview by David S. Cargo, 25 July 1990, Flagstaff, Arizona. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107507

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Mitchell, William, 1943-. (1990). Oral history interview with William Mitchell. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107507.

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