Classic programming

[Jay Jaeger]

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).

JRJ

On 8/8/2015 10:14 AM, Phil Budne wrote:
>> Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in
>> languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
>> in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing?
> 
> I don't think of it as "retrocomputing" per se, but I maintain a
> SNOBOL4 implementation: http://www.snobol4.org/csnobol4/
> 
> Mostly I write SNOBOL4 throw away programs for textual
> transformations. The biggest bit of programming I've done recently is
> a package to compile/install shared libraries for extending SNOBOL4.
> 
> Phil
>