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>> Dmitry et al "SNOBOL patterns are far more powerful "

Yes!  SPITBOL was a much faster compiled version of the SNOBOL4 interpreter=
.  (SNOBOL4 was the version of SNOBOL with pattern matching.)  I once used =
SPITBOL to write a quick and dirty assembler for a truly ancient machine wi=
th only a paper tape reader.  lol.

However!  I truly fell in love with the ICON language, created at the Unive=
rsity of Arizona by Ralph Griswold, one of the developers of SNOBOL4, and h=
is students.  Unlike SNOBOL4, in which the pattern matching was a separate =
facility with its associated problems, as has been pointed out earlier in t=
his thread, ICON integrated pattern matching into the normal (and natural!)=
 expression evaluation.  In this way an expression, and potentially an enti=
re statement, could be evaluated zero or more times until the pattern match=
 was completely satisfied.  Very beautiful!

I still keep my ICON book and dream of integrating ICON pattern evaluation =
into Ada expressions.  A pipe dream, but one must live for something.  lol