SNOBOL4
<language> A quite distinct descendant of SNOBOL, developed by Griswold
et al in 1967. SNOBOL4 is declarative with dynamic scope. Patterns are
first-class data objects that can be constructed by concatenation and
alternation. Success and failure are used for flow control. Delayed
(unevaluated) expressions can be used to implement recursion. It has a table
data type. Strings generated at run time can be treated as programs and
executed.
See also vanilla.
SNOBOL 4.
ftp://apple.com/ArchiveVol1/Unix_lang.
["The SNOBOL4 Programming Language", Ralph E. Griswold et al, P-H 1971].
(2004-04-29)
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