Re: Recommended books to learn Java

[Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>]

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