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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Content Addressible Memories
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Date: 16 Dec 88 04:50:03 GMT
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	"As far as procedural languages go, what we need is a language
	that supports associative data structures (tables?) ..."

So soon we forget .. SNOBOL4, popular in the early 1970s, featured
"tables," like arrays but the subscript could be anything (a string,
a pattern, another table ...)

The language sank under its dependence on Fortran-like unstructured
control flow, and its father went on to invent Icon.  I don't know
whether Icon has tables.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!hammer!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com@relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]