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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Searches for string in a stream(SNOBOL?)
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 01:49:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 01:49:21 1985
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> Even though I have a biased preference for the beauty of simplicity of
> Snobol, I must agree that Icon serves better practical purposes.

Yes and no.  Thought experiment:  imagine that the syntax of SNOBOL4
were modernized.  What would then be your complaints about the language?