8 Aug
2015
8 Aug
'15
10:55 a.m.
On 08/08/2015 08:44 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
If you like to play with classics like SNOBOL in their
original
form, then you can run SNOBOL and SPITBOL under the Hercules IBM
mainframe emulator.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-390/files/SNOBOL4/
http://www.snobol4.com/spitbol360/
(These days I use Perl for the stuff I used to do in SNOBOL back
when).
Technically, however, isn't the language "SNOBOL4", not "SNOBOL"?
At
least that's the way my bought-in-1968 black covered copy has it. I've
tried it on a 360/40 and a CDC 6600 (even in 1968, there existed several
"ports' of it, including for the Univac 1108 and RCA Spectrola as well
as one for the Intel 8080 under CP/M.
As others have pointed out, there are better tools now.
Does the code from Bell Labs SNOBOL 1, 2, or 3 still exist anywhere?
--Chuck