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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

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