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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Lisp history: IF, etc. Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:14:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <87r0fp8lab.fsf@tudado.org> <87wmpg7gpg.fsf@tudado.org> <20240402084057.881@kylheku.com> <86h6gjpq3i.fsf_-_@williamsburg.bawden.org> <86cyr6pb2l.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> <875xwy412p.fsf@nightsong.com> <868r1up0wk.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> <871q7m3wrj.fsf@nightsong.com> <86zfu9ooux.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> <87frw03b4j.fsf@nightsong.com> <877chbfs00.fsf@yaxenu.org> <87r0f61jkb.fsf@nightsong.com> <87il0iynlu.fsf@nightsong.com> <87edb5yxn5.fsf@nightsong.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eab0799947e46f7ee0d29068ff6512f6"; logging-data="1297584"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/OVH/ACxvUOFAy2QVUpXD2" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9DZtR8U5JyrtMOteiR3Xx/rjmyI= Bytes: 2161 On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:23:42 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL, where SNOBOL was StriNg > Oriented symBOLic language) was a quite amazing 1970s(?) implementation > of a language that could be seen as an antecedent of something like > Perl: > > https://github.com/spitbol Had a quick look at that. I would say the whole SNOBOL family has been left in the dust by Perl. And by languages that were able to take advantage of PCRE libraries.