The wonders of C

mwm at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA mwm at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Mon Apr 1 19:05:16 AEST 1985


In article <325 at bu-cs.UUCP> root at bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>We used to tell students
>that you could put on a pair of golf shoes, jump all over a
>keypunch card (told you it was old) and it would be a legal
>SNOBOL program...heck, ' ' was an operator!

No, ' ' was not "an" operator, it was *three* operators: string
concatenation, pattern concatenation, and pattern match.

	<mike



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