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  1. Path: goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!not-for-mail
  2. From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pl1
  4. Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
  5. Date: 7 Mar 1996 19:36:55 +1100
  6. Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
  7. Message-ID: <4hm777$nt5@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
  8. References: <rcshlds.1.000A6705@mailserv.mta.ca> <Dn8pJ8.nqs@emi.net> <4grt4e$8fg@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4hhdcu$43p@due.unit.no>
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  11.  
  12. toriver@pvv.unit.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen) writes:
  13. >Are there any other languages than Prolog that implement a "machine" for
  14. >backtracking?
  15.  
  16. To my certain knowledege: SNOBOL and Icon.
  17. I've heard it but can't verify it:  SETL.
  18. One person at Arizona in the Icon project even wrote a preprocessor
  19. to provide backtracking in C.
  20.  
  21. -- 
  22. The election is over, and Australia lost; the idjits elected _politicians_!
  23. Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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