Just wondering if no one was generating messages, or if I was dropped from the list by accident. Last messages was dated 10/17....
Logan C. Kinnison
lckinni@...
Nov 4, 1998 7:08 am
631
Nope, your email's working fine, Logan...it's just been quiet. Occasionally, you can hear a pin drop here (must be everybody's gone back to work?) -ron...
Ron Stephens
stephens@...
Nov 4, 1998 10:50 am
632
I've just been looking at Snobol to find out whether it would be of use to me or not. I was wondering, seeing as traffic is low, just how people were using it...
Ian Hutchesson
mc2499@...
Nov 4, 1998 2:41 pm
633
I use it a lot as a quick text processing language. Anything from spell checking to source file manipulation. Martin ... From: Ian Hutchesson...
Martin Waller
Martin.Waller@...
Nov 4, 1998 3:19 pm
634
We have done quite a bit with matching algorithms, data manipulation, Sybase to oracle syntax translations as well as many small utilities. By the way, over...
Charles Wardell
cwardell@...
Nov 4, 1998 4:26 pm
635
... me or not. I guess a lot of that depends on what you need to do!!! Although I personally don't consider S*BOL to be at all a "special purpose" language....
gep2@...
Nov 4, 1998 5:10 pm
636
Hi Ian, I've been on the list for about a year now. Traffic varies quite a bit. A couple of weeks ago we had a question which then split into two or three...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Nov 4, 1998 5:18 pm
637
Ian Hutchesson wrote: ...... snipped ...... ... Any sort of thing where data is to be transformed. At the moment, I have a big file of data of the high...
John H. Lindsay
eil@...
Nov 4, 1998 5:28 pm
638
We publish a small regional monthly magazine on DOS/Windows computers, and use Spitbol 386 for so many things that I'll never list them all. Among them: 1)...
Ed Quillen
cozine@...
Nov 4, 1998 6:03 pm
639
Gosh, there certainly is life on the list! I'd like to thank the many people who responded and ask a further question. Parenthesis: I come from a pascal...
Ian Hutchesson
mc2499@...
Nov 4, 1998 11:22 pm
640
Hey! I love SNOBOL.... its my secret weapon.... Heres some actual code I wrote to parse HTML files and replace certain dynamic IP numbers. You put a comment...
sciatica@...
Nov 5, 1998 5:22 am
641
... the eol marker is different. Though I've found no way to deal with it in winword, I would think that it should be an easy job for Snobol. Probably so....
gep2@...
Nov 5, 1998 6:30 am
642
Gee, why is there so much traffic on this list? Regards, KGB Kevin G. Barkes, President . KGB Consulting, Inc. . kgb@... Website: www.kgb.com . Voice:...
Kevin G.Barkes
kgb@...
Nov 5, 1998 2:08 pm
643
Umm...you hafta start a thread that gets R. Dewar going...<smile>...
How about? Has anyone ever thought of pattenting Spitbol? :-)...
kgluck@...
Nov 5, 1998 10:49 pm
646
no...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 5, 1998 10:58 pm
647
That is so true ... Martin ... From: Marc.McCune@... [mailto:Marc.McCune@...] Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 6:03 PM To: Multiple recipients...
Martin Waller
Martin.Waller@...
Nov 6, 1998 9:40 am
648
... REFORMAT THE HARD DISK! Now isn't that special. Another fine MS product. -- Chuck...
MR CHARLES J GIBBONS
LUVD14A@...
Nov 8, 1998 8:56 pm
649
My latest experience with Visual Studio is similar: I uninstalled VS in order to install both VS and WinCE ETK on a drive large enough to hold athem both. In...
David Feustel
feustel@...
Nov 8, 1998 10:12 pm
650
<<REFORMAT THE HARD DISK! Now isn't that special. Another fine MS product. -- Chuck ... You need to accept this possibility whenever you use beta or...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 9, 1998 2:53 am
651
- On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 gep2@... wrote:...snipped... .. ... .. ... - Hmmm...: ?Are "work arounds" a suitable way to "fix" _intrinsic_ deficiencies? /*...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 9, 1998 5:12 pm
652
<<A lot has changed in 18 years since this was presented. Much of it holds up pretty well, but _not_ all of it. S4 users -- who also used Fortran II, Algol...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 9, 1998 5:21 pm
653
- On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - Thanks for this pointer! Any "position piece" by Tony Hoare is worth reading. I assume, but am...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 9, 1998 9:06 pm
654
- On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 gep2@... wrote:...snipped... .. ... .. ... - Hmmm: ?Are "work arounds" a suitable way to "fix" _intrinsic_ deficiencies? /* ......
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 10, 1998 4:28 am
655
While a person must use a language in order to learn it, it helps if short-cuts and improvements can be pointed out... I put together this SNOBOL4+ program to...
Logan C. Kinnison
lckinni@...
Nov 12, 1998 7:39 am
656
... determine a three digit multiplicand, a two digit multiplier, and four digit product that uses all the digits 1 through 9. Hmmmm.... How about: -plusops 1 ...
gep2@...
Nov 12, 1998 8:59 am
657
Gordon's solution is certainly best, but if you want a "funny" solution, check this one out: &ANCHOR = 1 DEFINE("Pick(S,A1,A2,A3,B1,B2)pre,post,prod") ...
Peter-Arno Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Nov 12, 1998 12:31 pm
658
This seems a far too complex program. This is a trivial problem, easily programmed in any language by simply generating all the permutations and testing them....
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 12, 1998 12:44 pm
659
I don't like this either, again, far too much complexity for a simple problem -plusops 1 i = 122 &fullscan = 1 nexti i = lt(i,999) i + 1 ?(j = 11)...
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