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From: poser@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.text
Subject: Re: poetry analysis, pattern recogn.
Message-ID: <2471@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 88 09:02:18 GMT
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Reply-To: poser@csli.UUCP (Bill Poser)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Keywords: pattern, text, analysis, poetry, SNOBOL, ICON
Summary: Use ICON rather than SNOBOL


	Instead of using SNOBOL or SPITBOL I suggest using ICON.
ICON is a decendant of SNOBOL that combines the string manipulation and
pattern matching facilities of SNOBOL with modern control structures.
ICON is good for the same sorts of tasks that SNOBOL is good for, but is
a much nicer language. It was developed by a group headed by Ralph Griswold,
one of the designers of SNOBOL, at the University of Arizona.
ICON runs on lots of machines (I have run it on a VAX 11/750 running 4.2BSD
UNIX and on an IBM PC running DOS 2.1 and DOS 3.3) and is available for
the cost of the distribution media from the ICON Project in the
Computer Science Department at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ 85721).
ICON is described in a book by Rallph Griswold and Madge Griswold entitled
_The ICON Programming Language_. There is also a book on the implementation
of ICON called _The Implementation of the ICON Programming Language_ by
the same authors which should be of interest to anyone interested
in the implementation of systems with extensive run-time support
requirements.