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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 30 May 1994 13:23:49 MST
Date: 29 May 94 23:57:42 GMT
From: news.delphi.com!usenet@uunet.uu.net (Will Mengarini)
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Subject: Re: Spitbol reference?
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Michael Glass <CSGLASS@minna.acc.iit.edu> writes:
>Ken Holman wrote, in part:
>> The only thing I remember from Snobol was that there was no such thing as a
>> syntax error.
>Let's not critize Mr. Holman. There is a wonderful typographical error
>in an example program at the end of the 2nd edition of the Snobol book
>in which the "*" was omitted from a comment. The result is that an
>English sentence (sans punctuation) is mixed in with the program source.
>Even with a random English sentence added, there are no errors and
>the program works as it was designed.
This a program I'd like to see--is it short enough to type in?