Darren New wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> One of these days I'm going to learn it just because I'm curious about 
>> it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
> 
> It's sort of like Perl, only more ... tabular, somehow. People don't use 
> it any more because computers are powerful enough to run things like 
> Perl now.
> 

As I understand it's pattern matching uses a recursive backtracking 
algorithm, which should give it a bit of a Prolog flavor too.  This 
seems distinct from the Perl way of doing things (although historically 
the latter seems to won out as being more useful in practice).

Not that I know SNOBOL or Perl mind you, so I'm talking based mostly on 
my impressions of Icon and Ruby respectively plus a bit of extra reading.

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