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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: SNOBOL 77
Message-ID: <2657@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 13:10:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 13:10:57 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?

It _is_ modernized ... from SNOBOL 3.  (And SNOBOL 3 was _lots_ easier to
learn!)
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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