Yes.
The pattern matching sub-language in SNOBOL was expanded and generalised to become one of the core concepts in Icon. I take it you know SNOBOL?
[link|http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/|Icon]
[link|http://unicon.sourceforge.net/|Unicon] (Icon with objects and POSIX stuff; aka Icon II)
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |