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=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,d5b211b0c1ffcf3e
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.68.190.104 with SMTP id gp8mr6318706pbc.4.1339372824602;
        Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 l9ni39161pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:00:22 -0500
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <jr3cen$l1v$1@speranza.aioe.org>
References: 
 <79c5c9f7-4b72-4990-8961-b3e2db4db79b@qz1g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>
 <a09a80a241191ef62e72aa46e2c449bc@dizum.com>
 <98ef69fe-f5af-485b-89b2-9358059f4582@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: nma@12000.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: 3C623TNz/HPIQTEl9vi8rg.user.speranza.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
 rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: 2012-06-10T19:00:22-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 6/10/2012 10:49 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>

> That said, there are languages that are made for text processing,
>SNOBOL [IIRC] is one such language.

Yes, SNOBOL is very good for strings becuase it
has patterns build-in

http://www.snobol4.org/docs/burks/tutorial/ch4.htm#4.5

But perl is here now and it is what is used for string
processing more than anything I would think.

--Nasser