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Subject: Re: Pattern languages
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In article <2866@ima.ima.isc.com> oscar@cui.unige.ch (NIERSTRASZ Oscar) writes:
>Does anyone know of the existence of a "pattern language" ...

SNOBOL is an earliest example of such a language.  ICON, developed more
recently by Griswald and Co. at University of Arizona is another example
of a language which allows pattern matching, and various other assorted
features: generators, co-expressions etc. 

-- Vinod
[This question has provoked the most interesting set of responses in ages.
I still don't really know what a pattern language is, and seeing the variety
of responses that have arrived, it doesn't look like anyone else does, either.
Keep those cards and letters coming, though.  -John]
[From harvard!ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU!decvax!tl-vaxa!grover (Vinod Grover)]
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