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Greg Ewing wrote:

> Muffy wrote:
> >   Maybe I'm confused, though...maybe there was a language called Icon as
> > well.
> Yes, there is a programming language called Icon.
> It's descended from SNOBOL (created by the same
> person). SNOBOL was a very funky language designed
> specially for doing pattern matching and other stuff
> on strings. Icon takes many of the ideas about
> pattern matching from SNOBOL, applies them to
> other things besides strings, and generally manages
> to be even funkier.

And there's SPITBOL (which, as a sidenote, is what the original INTERCAL
compiler was written in), which is also a SNOBOL descendant, with even more
"funk" to it.


