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@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

🧐🎩 "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 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

@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

@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

@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.

@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.

@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.

@pragprog I couldn’t resist this. The initial chapters (I consumed #Forth and #APL last night) are very readable and I’m looking forward to #SNOBOL.

I see that #PostScript will get an honourable mention in the final chapter as a teaser for a sequel 😀. I have a particular fondness for PostScript as writing an interpreter was my final year project at Poly.

@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!

@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!

@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!!!

@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