11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
6:48 p.m.
On 11 Jan 2012 at 11:19, Richard wrote:
This paper might be interesting:
"Snobol4: A Computer Programming Language for the Humanities"
<http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972.pdf
Nah, who'd want to use a language what was so obviously full of
GOTOs?
(Since much of SNOBOL was written in (gasp!) FORTRAN, you've got me
wondering what the name of the string-handling package for FORTRAN 66
was that I used quite a bit. Time has almost eradicated it from my
memory. I seem to remember that SNOBOL4 could even link to the
FORTRAN run-time library and programs written in FORTRAN).
--Chuck