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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (H. Chai)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Searches for string in a stream(SNOBOL?)
Message-ID: <634@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 11:05:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 11:05:33 1985
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References: <2389@ukma.UUCP> <7839@ucla-cs.ARPA> <13666@rochester.UUCP> <624@ttrdc.UUCP> <2433@hcradm.UUCP>
Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (H. Chai)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <2433@hcradm.UUCP> steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj) writes:
>You want to write operating systems, you use C; you want to match patterns,
>you use SNOBOL:-)
>--
>Everyone's a SNOBOL freak at heart!  It's only the brave who admit it.

Please, Steve, SNOBOL is *out*.  If you want to do pattern matching,
the *in* language is Icon! 8-)
(and it's not yuppie!)

-- 
Henry Chai, just a humble student at the 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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