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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fB5F6hw12349
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From: eka@corp.cirrus.com (Eka Laiman)
Subject: Re: Bio Informatics
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:29:14 -0800 (PST)
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Steve Graham wrote:
> A fellow in my office is interested in this and has mentioned that
> Perl is being touted for its abilities to do pattern matching.
> Wonder if Icon could find a home here and perhaps a boost, too?
I am teaching a class on AWK in the company where I am working. The
class is offered as an alternative to PERL.
One of the thing which AWK copies from SNOBOL is the pattern matching
stuff. I told my students/group that pattern matching and hash array
(table) originated in SNOBOL.
As ICON is the direct descendant of SNOBOL, I see no reason why ICON
cannot do what PERL can - at least in the area of pattern matching.
If there is anything which puzzles me is the behaviour of table in
ICON especially when we try to build a hash table with tens of
thousands of entries, the performance degrades very fast.
The "strong hold" of PERL lies in the OS related functions.
-eka-