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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Snobol and C (Awk!)
Message-ID: <517@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 14:11:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 14:11:05 1985
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Organization: Resource Dynamics Inc., New York
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I always considered awk(1) to be a marriage of Snobol and C.  In fact,
the awk manual even mentions Snobol in describing its array features.
I always thought that if they just put a little more work into it, they
could develop awk into a real language that could call C routines and
vice versa but retained awk's pattern matching and string splitting and
string-indexed arrays and auto-type-conversion.  Does anybody know why
this wasn't done/shouldn't be done/can't be done?

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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