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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 4 May 1994 15:36:16 MST
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From: nmw1638@cs.rit.edu (Nicolas M Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Spitbol vs. Icon
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Date: 4 May 94 16:15:02 GMT
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In article <Cp8yyL.152@stortek.com> cheyenne@witsend.stortek.com (Cheyenne Wills) writes:
>Actually -- if you want the pattern matching power of Snobol/Spitbol
>and the "control" structures of Icon, you might want to look at Rebus
>(available from the University of Arizona's anonymous FTP area I
>believe in the icon/misc? snobol/??? directories).
>Rebus is a hybrid language that takes Iconish control statements
>(sorry no generators, co-expressions, etc.) and spits out Snobol
>source code. It provides
easy "access" to Snobol's pattern
>matching facilities.
What about Icon library routines for handling regular expressions? I'd
love something like that, Icon would leave perl in the dust....
>Cheyenne
Nick