The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X

[Johan Vromans]

In article <1470 at mdbs.UUCP> wsmith at mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith) writes:
> C		pointers + dynamic allocation
Allocation is static.

> SNOBOL		Strings
Pattern matching + "fail" concept. Snobol4 has lots of datatypes.
Datatypes are dynamic (variables are not fixed to a specific type).
No distinction between programs and data ("EVAL" and "CODE"
functions). This property is shared with lisp.

Add:

ICON		Goal-oriented evaluation. Dynamic datatypes.
Pattern matching and "fail" concept from SNOBOL.


Please resume once in a while, this will be an interesting topic.

Johan
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