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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: SNOBOL 77
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 14:09:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 14:09:39 1985
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>> 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!)

No, I mean: what if the syntax were made to look more like, say, C?
Check out my article: "The Snocone Programming Language" in last summer's
Usenix proceedings (Portland), or wait for the 2/86 Byte (I hope...)