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From: steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Searches for string in a stream
Message-ID: <2433@hcradm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 19:53:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 19:53:52 1985
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Reply-To: steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Hey, c'mon people!  Something very obvious has been missed here.  Namely,
the damn program should have been written in SNOBOL in the first place.
You want to write operating systems, you use C; you want to match patterns,
you use SNOBOL:-)
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Everyone's a SNOBOL freak at heart!  It's only the brave who admit it.