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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Snobol and C (Awk!)
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 12:29:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 12:29:43 1985
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> 	If you pick up a copy of "The Icon Programming Language" by
> R.E. & M.T. Griswold (published in 1983 by Prentice-Hall), you will
> see that Snobol's powerful successor fits your bill (although it
> resembles C less than awk does), providing awk's capabilities and
> beyond in the context of a procedural language.  Somehow I suspect
> that most C programmers will prefer this to a pattern-directed language
> such as awk, because it at least appears to be more general  (Kind of
> like Lisp vs. Prolog).

I have used both Snobol and Icon and prefer the former, once I can get
around the crummy syntax.  I am aware, though, that the problem may
be that I learned Snobol first and have not yet had the incentive
to steep myself in Icon lore.

One nice thing about Icon -- it's free.