Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 03:53

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In article <1TzGbd#48h84g=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <1470@mdbs.UUCP> Bill Smith wrote:
>> Language	Fundamental Concept
>> SNOBOL		Strings
>Make that "strings as only data type"...and add

This is not true.  Snobol 4 has integers, floats, patterns, arrays, tables,
user-defined records, and lots of other stuff in addition to strings.
Perhaps
	SNOBOL		user-extensible pattern matching

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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X
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Date: 1 Jan 90 03:53:56 GMT
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