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Re: text processing as the problem

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Subject: Re: text processing as *the* problem
From: Dale R Worley <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 23:16:57 -0500 (EST)
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If you want to track it back, there's COMIT, the first serious text
processing language.  IIRC, it dates to the 1950's, and was the
predecessor to SNOBOL.

(Gloat: And I have a copy of the manual!)

Dale

References:
- Re: text processing as *the* problem
  - From: Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <gls@labean.East.Sun.COM>
- Re: text processing as *the* problem
  - From: "David L. Presberg" <Pres@mail2.gis.net>

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