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RE: https://seattle.pink/@mxchara/116859964817525587

For me this stirred an ancient memory of SNOBOL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL#SNOBOL4_features 😎
#snobol #programming

RE: https://seattle.pink/@mxchara/116859964817525587

For me this stirred an ancient memory of SNOBOL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL#SNOBOL4_features 😎
#snobol #programming

Just for the record; I looked it up:

SNOBOL by Farber, Griswold and Polonsky was developed at Bell Labs (!), 1962–1967.
Its patterns are essentially as powerful as context-free grammars, but syntactically they are rather different from regexes.
Etc.

I didn't find out if there are any records of SNOBOL influencing Unix regex processing.
Obviously, that is likely, and it is also likely it has been written up.

#PatternMatching
#Regex
#Regexes
#Regexp
#Regexps
#SNOBOL

@dougmerritt @ed1conf

Just for the record; I looked it up:

SNOBOL by Farber, Griswold and Polonsky was developed at Bell Labs (!), 1962–1967.
Its patterns are essentially as powerful as context-free grammars, but syntactically they are rather different from regexes.
Etc.

I didn't find out if there are any records of SNOBOL influencing Unix regex processing.
Obviously, that is likely, and it is also likely it has been written up.

#PatternMatching
#Regex
#Regexes
#Regexp
#Regexps
#SNOBOL

@dougmerritt @ed1conf

Mind-expanding programming languages
@surprisetalk on always chasing the next cool and perspective-altering language.
An excerpt from Kodsnack 659 - listen wherever you get podcasts or at kodsnack.se
#podcast #kodsnack #apl #lisp #snobol #optc

Mind-expanding programming languages
@surprisetalk on always chasing the next cool and perspective-altering language.
An excerpt from Kodsnack 659 - listen wherever you get podcasts or at kodsnack.se
#podcast #kodsnack #apl #lisp #snobol #optc

The 1972 INTERCAL Compiler Revealed - Have you ever heard of INTERCAL? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad. This relatively o... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-1972-intercal-compiler-revealed/ #softwaredevelopment #retrocomputing #intercal #spitbol #snobol

The 1972 INTERCAL Compiler Revealed - Have you ever heard of INTERCAL? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad. This relatively o... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-1972-intercal-compiler-revealed/ #softwaredevelopment #retrocomputing #intercal #spitbol #snobol

🧐🎩 "I learned a dead language to build an even deader language, and I'm proud! 🤓🎉 Dive into my riveting #journey of #Snobol and toy Forth—a saga no one asked for, but here it is anyway. 📚🚀"
https://ratfactor.com/snobol/ #DeadLanguages #Forth #ProgrammingAdventure #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

🧐🎩 "I learned a dead language to build an even deader language, and I'm proud! 🤓🎉 Dive into my riveting #journey of #Snobol and toy Forth—a saga no one asked for, but here it is anyway. 📚🚀"
https://ratfactor.com/snobol/ #DeadLanguages #Forth #ProgrammingAdventure #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

https://ratfactor.com/snobol/

#HackerNews #Snobol #Forth #Programming #ToyProjects #CodingJourney

I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

https://ratfactor.com/snobol/

#HackerNews #Snobol #Forth #Programming #ToyProjects #CodingJourney

@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven
#Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7

@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven
#Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7

@ovid #Fortran #COBOL #PL1 #APL #Snobol #algol60 #lisp #basic #jovial #pascal #python #java #c #cpp #plsql #perl #forth #ada #tcl

I worked with #prolog and could do maintenance on the code, but couldn’t really create from scratch.

I started in the 70’s, IBM 1620 assembler.

@ovid #Fortran #COBOL #PL1 #APL #Snobol #algol60 #lisp #basic #jovial #pascal #python #java #c #cpp #plsql #perl #forth #ada #tcl

I worked with #prolog and could do maintenance on the code, but couldn’t really create from scratch.

I started in the 70’s, IBM 1620 assembler.

@hl

Night of the Living #Sed

A Nightmare in #Elm Codebase

The Little #Pascal s

#BASIC Instinct

#Snobol Express [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069291/]

The #BourneShell Identity

The Man (Page) on #Eiffel 's (Numeric) Tower [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041628/]

#TCL Me

Next, #Goal Wins? [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10767052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2]

Single word:

Prolog [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955294/]

Shakespeare:

Much #Ada About Nothing
#MacLisp
#Asm : You Like It!
All Is Hell that Ends Abnormally
Love's Labour's ... #Lisp!

@spot And you know what's the most crazy part of it? It is not some kind of deluvial legacy script. Somebody started a development of new program in #SNOBOL on 25th July 2022!!!

Thanks for this link. Very good article. I've used quite of few of these languages and they've definitely had an influence on my programming regardless of which language I've used for any given project. The first programs I wrote were in #APL and #FORTRAN followed by #LISP and #SNOBOL (via Spitbol).

@markjacobsen @wfaler @alexandru

#FORTRAN IV
#assembly
#lisp
#algol
#snobol
#pascal
#forth
#PL/m
#C
#cplusplus
#java
#javascript
#bash
#delphi
#sql

@markjacobsen @wfaler @alexandru

#FORTRAN IV
#assembly
#lisp
#algol
#snobol
#pascal
#forth
#PL/m
#C
#cplusplus
#java
#javascript
#bash
#delphi
#sql

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Oh, man, I wasn't expecting #SNOBOL to come up today. My parents programmed it back in the 70s before they left the programming field and got what they thought of as "real" jobs!

Does anyone has experience with the #Unicon¹ programming language? It is a successor of the #Icon² programming language and #Snobol. I really like it's concepts and Icon seemed to be popular in the early ninetees, but I'm wondering if and how it is used nowadays...

¹http://unicorn.org
²http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon

#Programming #ProgrammingLanguages #ProgLang #Development