Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ccvaxa!wombat From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: SNOBOL for Amy Message-ID: <33500002@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 22:12:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.33500002 Posted: Thu Dec 3 22:12:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 06:05:13 EST References: <18476@amdahl.amdahl.com> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:amdahl.amdahl.com:18476:ccvaxa:33500002:000:434 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat Dec 3 21:12:00 1987 What's Icon? Well, imagine SNOBOL, Pascal, and C mashed together... It's a fun language; I got a little over half-way through the book before I got distracted by other things. SNOBOL and awk are left behind in the dust. "My words say what you hear them say, but the movements of my mouth indicate that I am telling a series of humorous stories in Yiddish." R.A. Lafferty, *The Devil Is Dead* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat