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000131_icon-group-sender _Fri Dec 2 01:56:49 1994.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 1 Dec 1994 23:17:21 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 2 Dec 1994 01:56:49 GMT
From: pmcnally@uoguelph.ca (Paul Mcnally)
Message-Id: <3blut1$ng2@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Organization: University of Guelph
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3bkso1$ke2@usenet.rpi.edu>, <3bl9c5$7j5@uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: SNOBOL information
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Alan D Corre (corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu) wrote:
: In article <3bkso1$ke2@usenet.rpi.edu> haakee@rpi.edu writes:
: > I am writing a term paper on SNOBOL and would be very pleased if anyone
: >out there could supply me with some historical information on the SNOBOL
: >programming language. You can mail me at haakee@rpi.edu
: >
: > Thanks in advance,
: > Erik
: I should like to suggest, in all seriousness, that you first put yourself
: through the monotorture of going to your college library and browsing among
: the books that deal with the history of programming languages. I'm prepared
: to bet that you will find lots of eye-opening, interesting and amusing
: information concerning what you are looking for. Armed with the basic
: information you have dug up (which will probably stay with you because you
: dug it) you can then ask some specific questions which may get authoritative
: replies, because there are people reading this group who know it all by
: heart. (I'm not one of them. I'm just an admirer of that green book which
: first piqued my interest in all of this.)
: You are asking what in Hebrew terminology is called a "sheelat tam" (the
: question of a simpleton). Why not spend a little time and ask a "sheelat
: hakham" (the question of a smart person)?
: --
: Alan D. Corre
: Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies
: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
I was able to find _plenty_ of information on Icon. While looking for
this information I came across information on SNOBOL - it's out there, you
just have to put in the time to find it. Check the ACM SIGPLAN notices,
Software Practice and Experience, IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering, or an index on computer periodicals. Yes, they should be at a
library near you.
Best of Luck
Paul
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