SNOBOL ==>
String Oriented Symbolic Language
<language> (SNOBOL) A string processing language for text and formula
manipulation, developed by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P.
Polonsky at Bell Labs in 1962.
SNOBOL had only simple control structures but provided a rich string-matching
formalism of power comparable to regular expressions but implemented
differently. People used it for simple natural language processing analysis
tasks well into the 1980s. Since then, Perl has come into favour for such tasks.
SNOBOL was originally called "SEXI" - String EXpression Interpreter. 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 ...". The expansion to "String Oriented Symbolic
Language" was contrived later.
Implementations include (in no particular order): SNOBOL2, SNOBOL3, SNOBOL4,
FASBOL, SITBOL, MAINBOL, SPITBOL and vanilla.
See also EZ, Poplar, SIL and Icon.
SNOBOL 4.
David Farber.
Ralph Griswold.
["SNOBOL, A String Manipulating Language", R. Griswold et al, J ACM 11(1):21,
Jan 1964].
(2004-04-29)
Nearby terms:
string « String EXpression Interpreter « STring
Oriented Interactive Compiler « String Oriented
Symbolic Language
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