Re: GOTO controversy

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 08:36

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toriver@pvv.unit.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen) writes:
>Are there any other languages than Prolog that implement a "machine" for
>backtracking?

To my certain knowledege: SNOBOL and Icon.
I've heard it but can't verify it:  SETL.
One person at Arizona in the Icon project even wrote a preprocessor
to provide backtracking in C.

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Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.

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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
Date: 7 Mar 1996 19:36:55 +1100
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