Aucbvax.1625 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!mo@LBL-UNIX Thu Jun 11 11:40:16 1981 ICON Yes, ICON is the research sucessor to Snobol4. Several features were described in a recent SIGPLAN article and it is really an advancement over Snobol. However, if you want to write "production" Snobol programs, or have some Snobol code you wish to run, Macro-Spitbol still seems to be the ticket. -Mike ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.