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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 30 May 1994 13:22:54 MST
Date: 30 May 94 19:16:46 GMT
From: agate!news.ossi.com!news.fai.com!amdahl!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!naggum.no!comp-text-sgml@ucbvax. (Ken Holman)
Subject: Re: Spitbol reference?
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[Gary Merrill]
| It is one of my favorite languages, though one hardly sees it used much
| any more at all.
[John Smith]
| I like Snobol
I, personally, hated using Snobol but was biased because I only had to
learn it and know it for two weeks to do a single assignment regarding
pattern matching in a languages course in 1978 and haven't needed to touch
it since.
What features of the language particularly helped you or made you feel that
the language was more useful than others?
The only thing I remember from Snobol was that there was no such thing as a
syntax error. My recollection is that anything and everything that could
be typed on a line _meant_ something. There were no bounds to help with
identifying typos, improperly typed constructs, etc.
Very frustrating when an assignment had to be done in short order.
--
G. Ken Holman | Phone: +1 613 727-5696 x317
Vice President, R&D | Fax: +1 613 727-9491
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