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If you find Icon interesting then you probably want to have a look at SNOBOL also. http://www.snobol4.org/ http://www.snobol4.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by protomyth 5y ago
If you find Icon interesting then you probably want to have a look at SNOBOL also. http://www.snobol4.org/ http://www.snobol4.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
- kbob 5y agoI found SNOBOL a lot harder to work with than Icon. Icon is an Algol-like language in that it has the usual flow control mechanisms, enhanced with Icon's backtracking. SNOBOL is a lot more like assembly. So it's harder (for me) to read the basic control flow of a program. I think SNOBOL predated the invention of structured programming, or at least Griswold wasn't aware of structured programming's advantages when he designed it.