Re^2: New programming language suggestions

Icon was Ralph Griswold's next crack at a language after SNOBOL5. He was a prof at U of Arizona when I was there and one of his students was the teacher of a comparative languages course and he threw SNOBOL at us. I was a frosh and this was a 272 course, but comparing Pascal to LISP to APL to SNOBOL to CDC6400 assembler was awesome. Quite the brain-stretcher, it {SNOBOL} was all about pattern matching. Many functional and logic programming languages take elements from SNOBOL, as do RegEx engines.

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Re^3: New programming language suggestions by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 14, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
comparing Pascal to LISP to APL to SNOBOL to CDC6400 assembler was awesome Has a similar 200 level course at my undergrad. The year I took it was quite good. A couple of years afterwords, a new prof took over the course, and to limit the amount of year to year code reuse (ahem), he mixed up the program assignment and the language. For example, instead of coding the missionary and cannibal program in Lisp, he had them do it in Snobol. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth :-\| --MidLifeXis	[reply]

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by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 14, 2005 at 17:32 UTC

comparing Pascal to LISP to APL to SNOBOL to CDC6400 assembler was awesome

Has a similar 200 level course at my undergrad. The year I took it was quite good. A couple of years afterwords, a new prof took over the course, and to limit the amount of year to year code reuse (ahem), he mixed up the program assignment and the language. For example, instead of coding the missionary and cannibal program in Lisp, he had them do it in Snobol. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth :-|

--MidLifeXis

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