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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: The wonders of C
Message-ID: <872@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 04:05:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 04:05:16 1985
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References: <9436@brl-tgr.ARPA> <7127@watdaisy.UUCP> <325@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
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Summary: 

In article <325@bu-cs.UUCP> root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>We used to tell students
>that you could put on a pair of golf shoes, jump all over a
>keypunch card (told you it was old) and it would be a legal
>SNOBOL program...heck, ' ' was an operator!

No, ' ' was not "an" operator, it was *three* operators: string
concatenation, pattern concatenation, and pattern match.

	<mike