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	SNOBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language) is a computer programming language developed between 1962 and 1967 at ATandT Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky.
		SNOBOL was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages, and one of the more successful; others included COMIT and TRAC.
		As a result it is possible to use SNOBOL as if it were an object-oriented language, a logical programming language, a functional language or a standard imperative language by changing the set of features used to write a program.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SNOBOL (626 words)

	Math 169 Notes -- SNOBOL
		SNOBOL and its most recent version, SNOBOL4, were designed to allow easy manipulation of character strings.
		SNOBOL was developed at Bell Labs between 1962 and 1964 and SNOBOL4 released in 1967.
		SNOBOL introduced the concept of pattern-matching as a fundamental "operation" and included operations and functions specifically geared to string manipulation.
	math.scu.edu /~dsmolars/ma169/notessnobol.html (598 words)

	Snobol System
		SNOBOL is an unusual programming language in comparison to most conventional styles, but is based on a very sound principle of pattern matching to solve string manipulation problems.
		SNOBOL is a particularly portable language, as most of its implementations are interpreters.
		When an individual SNOBOL statement is executed, it's execution is said to either "succeed" or "fail".The success or failure of a statement may occur during pattern matching, as we have seen in the foregoing section.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/aye/SNOBOL.htm (4818 words)

	SNOBOL Background/History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL was first developed by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold, and Ivan P. Polensky at Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL) in 1962.
		The development of SNOBOL was triggered by the frustrations that the developers had with languages at that time, namely SCL and COMIT.
		SNOBOL was mainly influenced by SCL and to a lesser degree by COMIT.
	sol.students.engr.scu.edu /~jli2/snobol/history.html (299 words)

	SNOBOL LANGUAGE WEB PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL was designed in the early 1960s by three people at Bell Laboratories: (D.J. Farber, R.E. Griswold, and F.P. Polensky (Farber et al., 1964).
		SNOBOL is a special purposed language developed to provide a powerful means of doing character string manipulation.
		Because of the dynamic nature of SNOBOL and its interpreter implementation, it is now considered too slow for such applications.
	www.cs.fit.edu /~dclay/cse5040/snobol.html (296 words)

	Talk:SNOBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nonredundant text from Snobol should preferably be IDed by someone familiar with the status of the SNOBOL language (or prepared to research) and smoothly grafted in.
		After say two months, i say just see to the history, then paste Snobol's current content at the foot of the SNOBOL page and let our interested colleagues take care of it as the spirit moves them.
		The story I heard (from Polonsky, as I recall, who I knew at Bell Labs), was that the name came from "a snowball's chance in hell," which was said (by whom I don't know) about the prospects for the language succeeding (or, perhaps, being implemented).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Snobol (660 words)

	Multics SNOBOL and the Missing END Statement
		The SNOBOL code was a threaded code interpreter for which I provided PL/I glue code for I/O and stuff.
		The standard SNOBOL implementation was a novelty: it was a portable assembly language program, and had been ported to many different machines by the time it reached Multics.
		It wasn't a complete orphan--I sent tapes of it to USL and a few other sites, and I fixed at least one bug for USL (in my PL/I code, of course, not in the macro part), but I don't believe it ever saw much use beyond an occasional languages course.
	www.multicians.org /multics-snobol.html (657 words)

	The SNOBOL Programming Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL, which is the acronym for String-Oriented Symbolic Language, was invented in 1962 by Bell Labs.
		SNOBOL then progressed until it reached it's finally implementation in 1967 called SNOBOL4.
		Click on Snobol to get to the Snobol page were features in Snobol4 are listed with a score to show how well these features work.
	www.engin.umd.umich.edu /CIS/course.des/cis400/snobol/snobol.html (215 words)

	SNOBOL 4+ documentation - SNOBOL4 - SNOBOL4+ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It seemed to me pointless to repeat everything that is given there, so I have written this on the assumption that you have the Vanilla SNOBOL documentation, and this document carries on from there.
		As in Vanilla SNOBOL, a positive value strips trailing blanks, and a zero value adds trailing blanks up to the record length for the input file.
		If SNOBOL is running under Windows in a DOS window, it may be a windows program.
	www.sachsdavis.clara.net /Snobol4Pdoc.html (3256 words)

	String Oriented Symbolic Language from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL had only simple control structures but provided a rich string-matching formalism of power comparable to regular expressions but implemented differently.
		In spite of the suggestive name, SNOBOL is not related to COBOL.
		Farber said the name SNOBOL was largely contrived at the time the original JACM article was published when one of the implementors said something like, "This program doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of...".
	foldoc.org /?SNOBOL (194 words)

	LtU Classic Archives
		SNOBOL is quite adept at string handling (regular expressions seemed to have been inspired by this language).
		SNOBOL is showing it's age, though, as structured programming is not really supported - GoTo's all over the place.
		The free Vanilla SNOBOL compiler can be downloaded here if you're interested in exploring the language.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /classic/message624.html (263 words)

	Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology: Programming Languages for Library and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented SymBOlic Language) was the first viable string processing language.
		These advantages won SNOBOL its role as the primary language for specialized text analysis and research during the 1970s and 1980s.
		SNOBOL declined when its primary author developed a new language called Icon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3991/is_200508/ai_n15327665 (1242 words)

	SNOBOL Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL features string concatenation, GOTO control structure, run-time compilation, variable length string, array tables and record type objects (later version of SNOBOL), absence of declaration, and operator overloading.
		SNOBOL relies on GOTO extensively to “jump” to different locations of the program.
		With their introduction, the issue of coercion was raised, which is the automatic conversions of data types with respect to the context of the code.
	students.engr.scu.edu /~jli2/snobol/features.html (184 words)

	[No title]
		If it has a point, the point is only that SNOBOL's pattern matching is still a lot better than Perl's, and that it is worth studying, because we could learn a lot from it.
		But it was late, and my mind went down the m//g path, and I realized that m/.*/g wouldn't do it, of course.
		In SNOBOL, the OUTPUT variable is special: Anything `stored' in OUTPUT is actually printed instead.
	perl.plover.com /SNOBOL-fence.html (521 words)

	TWiki . Main . SNOBOL
		Eventually I wrote a SNOBOL program for my Descriptive Linguistics course instead of a term paper.
		In the process I got account "LNG001" at the computer center, this may mean that I was the first kid on the block to think of using computers for linguistics.
		I too, had to design a syntax for the prospective user, to communicate his proposed ruleset to the computer without having to learn the whole SNOBOL language.
	www.adamsinfoserv.com /twiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/SNOBOL (582 words)

	SNOBOL Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before SNOBOL was chosen, String Extraction Interpreter (SEXI) was considered.
		Programmer-defined functions were considered, but not implemented in SNOBOL, due to the lack of personnel resources at BTC.
		Any string of characters was a legal SNOBOL program, and the compiler would accept everything as long as it is a string.
	students.engr.scu.edu /~jli2/snobol/problems.html (465 words)

	Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 : Whatever happened to SNOBOL? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A professor I did TA work for in graduate school was Bill Griswold [http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~wgg/] (probably best known for some of his work in ubiquitous computing in the classroom, but who has also done some work on AOP-related matters).
		I think I had heard about SNOBOL once in an undergrad class in 1998, and here it was, four years later, and it came percolating up to the top of the ol' brain stack.
		We used to joke that it was the only language that would compile the text from a book successfully.
	blogs.msdn.com /ksharkey/comments/366074.aspx (273 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL and SPITBOL are programming languages that favour dirty programming.
		In the past decade or so, I came up with quite a few really horrible pieces of code, that, yet, are quite fascinating to explore.
		This is a problem that many SNOBOL programmers will encounter sooner or later.
	lands.let.kun.nl /TSpublic/coppen/DirtySNOBOL.html (1599 words)

	Snobol4
		Snobol4 is a string-processing language developed by Ralph Griswold in the early 1960s, which was popular for work in linguistics and artificial intelligence and which still has many devoted adherents.
		A comparative study of programming languages, their development and the development of the programming paradigms that they embody.
		The home of Vanilla Snobol4 and Snobol 4+ (as well as some very nice Snobol4 T-shirts, if you like that sort of thing!).
	burks.brighton.ac.uk /burks/language/snobol (139 words)

	snobol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's pattern matching is different than Snobol's, but also very powerful.
		The only advantage of regular expressions over Snobol pattern matching and Icon string scanning is that regular expressions are very terse.
		And a site about Snobol in general at [2].
	wiki.tcl.tk /10614 (246 words)

	Xtreme Visual Basic Talk - Snobol!!!!!
		The talk on the web is that SNOBOL is "available today for most large and medium sized computers" but I can't seem to find any compilers/development environments or even instructional books about it....
		When I was a lad in the late 70's, my dad (then an engineer at Digital Equipment Corp) told me he had been instructed (by my mom) to take some time, set me down, and explain, father-son-like, what he did.
		Surely there were other languages in existence then, but those were the only ones on my list and, due to the wonders of child psychology, they remain the "A-list" languages in my mind.
	www.visualbasicforum.com /t127262.html (2168 words)

	[No title]
		By gaining certification you not only have a hard copy certificate to prove your skills, but can also ask employers to check your virtual mark sheet and profile online quickly and conveniently.
		Since there are a lot of Snobol job seekers, extra credentials count.
		Find out how well suited you are for Snobol jobs.
	www.expertrating.com /jobs/Programming-jobs/Snobol-jobs.asp (326 words)

	LtU Classic Archives
		Considering that Icon and SNOBOL were developed by many of the same people, the languages probably have much in common with respect to text processing.
		I have heard that SNOBOL is really showing it's age these days (line numbers, etc...).
		As for Icon, text processing is much easier to deal with than regular expressions for the simple reason that the language natively supports generators, backtracking, and a success-failure mechanism.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /classic/message282.html (257 words)

	[No title]
		Since there are a lot of Snobol Programmer job seekers, extra credentials count.
		After passing your ExpertRating test, you will get an online transcript as well as a hard copy certificate mailed to you as proof of your Snobol Programmer skills.
		Find out how well suited you are for Snobol Programmer jobs.
	www.expertrating.com /jobs/Programming-jobs/Snobol-Programmer-jobs.asp (348 words)

	encyclopedia reuse article
		The SPSS language, for example, is a programming language that provides constructs from the statistics domain.
		Snobol is a language that provides text processing constructs, and so on.
		Little languages are small domain specific languages developed for a narrow problem domain.
	frakes.cs.vt.edu /SEportalReuse.htm (825 words)

	SNOBOL - OneLook Dictionary Search
		SNOBOL : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		SNOBOL : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
		SNOBOL : Dictionary of Programming Languages [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=SNOBOL (120 words)

	SNOBOL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You should notice that the function itself is not marked in any special way.
		The program text flows into it, and the code at label STARTREV is just another SNOBOL statement.
		Setting the SNOBOL system variable &TRIM to anything but 0 causes trailing blanks to be thrown away.
	www.csm.astate.edu /~rossa/cs3543/snobol.html (448 words)

	Icon in the Humanities
		In Susan Hockey's recent paper in TEXT Technology, "SNOBOL in the Humanities" [1], she stated "Other programming languages are not good for humanities computing " and went on to say that she thinks SNOBOL (SNOBOL4, to be precise [2]) is the ideal tool for such work.
		As the principal architect of the SNOBOL languages, I confess to having a warm feeling about Hockey's views.
		The first SNOBOL language was developed in 1962.
	www.cs.arizona.edu /icon/docs/humanit.htm (1861 words)

	Open Directory - Computers:Programming:Languages:Snobol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SNOBOL is an acronym for: StriNg-Oriented symBOlic Language.
		Related acronyms and implementations: FASBOL (SNOBOL compiler), MAINBOL, SITBOL, SNOBOL2, SNOBOL3, SNOBOL4, SPITBOL (SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL), Vanilla.
		SNOBOL had simple control structures, except for string matching abilities and power similar to regular expressions.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/Snobol/desc.html (53 words)

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