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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X
Keywords: programming languages, abstractions
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Date: 12 Jan 90 16:09:33 GMT
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Keeping it to a few words, as Bill did, how about

Icon		string pattern matching and backtracking
Prolog		relational pattern matching and backtracking

?

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