From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cd0a84dbd6b9ac94 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Received: by 10.68.136.104 with SMTP id pz8mr379966pbb.3.1360943743867; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:55:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.157.138 with SMTP id wm10mr96507igb.5.1360943743829; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:55:43 -0800 (PST) Path: jm3ni9pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kc14no3737101pbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:55:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <506a3922$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.59.203.209; posting-account=7Oy7OQoAAABhVYFOo553Cn1-AaU-bSfl NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.59.203.209 References: <506a3922$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Recommended books to learn Java From: Eryndlia Mavourneen Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:55:43 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-02-15T07:55:43-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, October 1, 2012 7:45:23 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > On 10/1/2012 12:59 PM, John B. Matthews wrote: >=20 > > In article , >=20 > > Dan Kalish wrote: >=20 > >> When I learned Pascal, I only had one book, the official version. >=20 > >> [...] >=20 > >> SNOBOL is fun. Did you know the Library of Congress uses SNOBOL? At >=20 > >> least they did in around 1998. >=20 > > >=20 > > You may also want to look at Ada, which descends in part from Pascal. >=20 > > GNAT, a popular reference implementation, includes a (non-Ada-standard) >=20 > > SPITBOL extensions library: >=20 >=20 >=20 > And actually GNAT has a flavor JGNAT that outputs Java >=20 > byte code for the JVM. >=20 >=20 >=20 > I don't think it ever was popular though. >=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 wit= hin the language, pattern matching within Icon is integrated within the bas= ic expression syntax, so that any expression has the potential of producing= zero or more results. -- Eryndlia