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From: conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SNOBOL (was: Aztec C DOES HAVE 'vi')
Message-ID: <424@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 18:30:42 GMT
References: <15490@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <535@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: conrad@wucs1.UUCP (H. Conrad Cunningham)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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In article <535@poseidon.ATT.COM> ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>From article <15490@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield):
>> does anyone know of something similar to SNOBOL for
>> powerful and flexible pattern matches and rearrangements.
>
>Ralph Griswold and company (one of the originators of SNOBOL) has developed
>ICON, which he considers the "next" snobol.  There is a version that runs under
>MPW.  You might write Griswold at University of Arizona for details.
>

The book:

	"The Icon Programming Language"
	By Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold
	Prentice-Hall, 1983

is a reference on the ICON language.  I think there is a more recent
book concerning implementation as well.

Conrad Cunningham