My language pattern matching language which I call amethyst starts 
coming close to generic tool for pattern matching. 

For example it is easy to write generic highligther as I did for
amethyst
http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/peridot/parser_highlight.ame.html

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 05:20:52AM -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
>    Alex Warth did both a standard Prolog and an English based language one
>    using OMeta in both Javascript, and in Smalltalk.
>    Again, why just go with something that happens to be around? Why not try
>    to make a language that fits to the users and the goals?
>    A stronger version of this kind of language is Datalog, especially the
>    "Datalog + Time" language -- called Daedalus -- used in the BOOM project
>    at Berkeley.
>    Cheers,
>    Alan
> 
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> 
>      From: Ryan Mitchley <[email protected]>
>      To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
>      Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:01 AM
>      Subject: Re: [fonc] [IAEP] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)
>      I wonder if micro-PROLOG isn't worth revisiting by someone:
> 
>      
> [1]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Micro-PROLOGPrimer.pdf
> 
>      You get pattern matching, backtracking and a "nicer" syntax than Prolog.
>      It's easy enough to extend with IsA and notions of classes of objects.
>      It still doesn't fit well with a procedural model, in common with
>      Prolog, though.
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