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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> If somebody is adamant to use patterns, then SNOBOL would be a better
> choice. It is cleaner, intuitive and more powerful than regular
> expressions. 

OMG, SNOBOL was fun, but these days, look at Parsec-style parser
combinators.  Parsec is a Haskell library but there are similar things
in other languages.

> (There is a SPITBOL implementation in GNAT libraries.

It is fun to look at, written in an abstract assembly language with a
SPITBOL program that translates it to various real assembly languages.
It is fun to read the source code, which is extremely well commented.

SPITBOL was originally written by Robert Dewar (of Adacore) and Ken
Belcher, fwiw.