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Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer by dreamcompiler on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:16PM (#12662279)
The ICON language is another good one that never took off. It was the successor to SNOBOL and was built around generators and goal-directed programming; two things that are again prominent in stream-based metaphors.

More about Prolog: Prolog, like Refal, had pattern-matching long before the modern functional languages. It's an extremely useful feature. Prolog is also the best database query language ever invented, which is why systems like Datalog and Datomic borrow from it heavily.

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