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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 31 May 1994 09:41:47 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Spitbol reference?
Message-Id: <770318568@mse>
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 17:22:48 UTC
From: whm%mse@uunet.uu.net (William H. Mitchell)
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Michael Glass writes:
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.
There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a CS student at North Carolina State
University who, as a matter of style, *never* used the SNOBOL4 comment
indicator -- his comments were simply pattern matches that failed.
While we're down memory lane -- is there anybody out there who used Ratsno
on a regular basis? That was a one day project of Dave Hanson's to
retarget Ratfor from FORTRAN to SNOBOL4. I came across it early in my
junior year as an undergraduate and used it for the balance of my
undergraduate work when I had a choice of language. I never converted any
of my peers to it, but I had a great time with it.