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		signa11 on Jan 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Erlang looks like it does according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching) SNOBOL in '62

fanf2 on Jan 26, 2016 [–]

SNOBOL pattern matching is on strings; SASL is the origin of pattern matching on algebraic data types.

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