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From: peterch@tekig4.UUCP (Peter Chao)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Searches for string in a stream(SNOBOL?)
Message-ID: <440@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 11:58:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 11:58:03 1985
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Reply-To: peterch@tekig4Chao.UUCP (Peter Chao)
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Summary: 

In article <634@utflis.UUCP> chai@utflis.UUCP (H. Chai) writes:
>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
>{watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai        
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I second Henry C..

Icon, developed by the same author(s?) that developed Snobol, is far more
general and 'powerful'.

Even though I have a biased preference for the beauty of simplicity of
Snobol, I must agree that Icon serves better practical purposes.

   Peter S. Chao