Remembering SNOBOL
I was reminiscing with a friend of mine the other day and the discussion came to programming languages. We named quite a few. I then asked him to guess my favorite language. He took lots of guesses until I finally stopped him and said SNOBOL . It is also known as SNOBOL4 but my texts seemed to drop the 4 when talking about String Oriented Symbolic Language. I think I wrote a paper on it or gave presentation. Although it is probably thought to be a dead language since the arrival of perl and the JAVA interations ( Griswald, one of SNoBols the creators died in 2006 ), you can still find there is interest in it. Like here . Although Viktors earthlink website which holds the manual has been down for half the decade. Ah hah- but I struck gold and found the original by Griswald himself ( or something akin to it) here . Oh the days of programming long past!