Re: Are Associative Arrays unique to Perl?

mzenier@netcom.com (Mark Zenier)
24 Oct 1996 22:28:48 -0400

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From: mzenier@netcom.com (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers
Date: 24 Oct 1996 22:28:48 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: <5437ev$30u@shell1.aimnet.com> <545mqn$qul@picasso.op.net> 96-10-099
Keywords: design, question, comment

in 96-10-099, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> wrote:
: >No; they first appeared in SNOBOL4 about twenty-five years ago.


SNOBOL got them from another language. As I remember it, the
name was COMET or COMIT and the language designers name was Ingve.
The application was linguistic AI, and they were used to store
various attributes for word dictionaries. Around 1965.


Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com mzenier@netcom.com
[That was Victor Yngve's COMIT, a language in which one could try and write
transformational grammars. It was delightfully strange. -John]
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