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From: ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Snobol/Spitbol for Unix
Message-ID: <502@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 16:17:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 25 16:17:17 1987
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In article <5335@brl-adm.ARPA> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) writes:
>
>I don't know, but have been led to believe that ICON, available from
>University of Arizona, is the successor to Snobol.
>

This is so, although string-processing is now only a small part of ICON.

I am in favour of RISL (Reduced Instruction Set Languages) and so prefer
SNOBOL4, which I use often for small, quick text-processing jobs (mailing
labels, for example) even if I have both Catspaw SNOBOL4 and ICON on my pc.

Nick Solntseff ns@maccs.UUCP