Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!jack!crash!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: SNOBOL for Amy Message-ID: <2415@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 14:19:33 EST Article-I.D.: gryphon.2415 Posted: Fri Nov 27 14:19:33 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:38:50 EST References: <18476@amdahl.amdahl.com> <2034@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <18763@amdahl.amdahl.com> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 29 Keywords: SNOBOL languages Catspaw ICON SPITBOL fnord spam Summary: Amy ? Theres no Amy here. Did you mean Jennifer ? >BTW, I had misread the note from Catspaw ... it *is* SPITBOL that they are >porting to the Amiga (they already have versions available for 680x0 based >UNIX(R) boxes like Apollo's, Sun's, NCR Tower, Convergent, etc.) > >/kim >vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > >From: uunet!violet.berkeley.edu!mwm%mica.Berkeley.EDU > >Unless you're really hooked on SNOBOL as SNOBOL, you might want to >look at Icon (it's on one of the Fish disks). > >Icon is what Griswold did after he got tired of SNOBOL. It's got >more powerful string parsing/pattern matching capabilities than >SNOBOL. They're also better integrated into the language. > >UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com Hot damn, thats it! I'm going to recode all the SEU software in ICON... Richard @ Danford -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."