* Re: Recommended books to learn Java
2012-10-02 0:45 ` Recommended books to learn Java Arne Vajhøj
@ 2013-02-15 15:55 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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From: Eryndlia Mavourneen @ 2013-02-15 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Monday, October 1, 2012 7:45:23 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/1/2012 12:59 PM, John B. Matthews wrote:
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> > In article <fa9ced0b-debb-4f8a-80af-da23094bc39d@googlegroups.com>,
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> > Dan Kalish wrote:
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> >> When I learned Pascal, I only had one book, the official version.
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> >> [...]
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> >> SNOBOL is fun. Did you know the Library of Congress uses SNOBOL? At
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> >> least they did in around 1998.
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> > You may also want to look at Ada, which descends in part from Pascal.
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> > GNAT, a popular reference implementation, includes a (non-Ada-standard)
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> > SPITBOL extensions library:
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> And actually GNAT has a flavor JGNAT that outputs Java
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> byte code for the JVM.
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> I don't think it ever was popular though.
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> Arne
Yes, I once wrote an assembler in SPITBOL -- lots of fun.
The descendent of SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL (compiled version of SNOBOL4) is/was the language Icon. It was developed by a team at the University of Arizona (Tucson, I believe) led by Ralph Griswold, one of the original developers of SNOBOL4.
Whereas with SNOBOL4's pattern matching really was a separate component within the language, pattern matching within Icon is integrated within the basic expression syntax, so that any expression has the potential of producing zero or more results.
-- Eryndlia
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