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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Snobol and C
Message-ID: <816@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 21:08:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 21:08:04 1985
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>From: abh6509@ritcv.UUCP (Xandrew)
>In article <2433@hcradm.UUCP> steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj) writes:
>>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:-)
>>--
>>Everyone's a SNOBOL freak at heart!  It's only the brave who admit it.

>How right you are! Now show us how to link a SNOBOL file into a C module......

Trivial, use a couple of pipes...(unless you think it would be faster
to re-write all of Snobol's functionality in C.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University