SNOBOL

SNOBOL is a programming language created in 1962 by David J. Farber and Ralph E. Griswold.

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SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Read more on Wikipedia...

SNOBOL website
SNOBOL Wikipedia page
SNOBOL docs
file extensions for SNOBOL include snobol
Explore SNOBOL snippets on Rosetta Code
SNOBOL on HOPL
ANTLR grammar for SNOBOL
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for SNOBOL
snobol4.org was registered in 2002
See also: (18 related languages)SPITBOL, Icon, Lua, COMIT, TRAC, JavaScript, awk, Perl, Regular Expressions, Algol, COBOL, Prolog, APL, BASIC, Fortran, C, Ada, Unicon
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Example from Riju:

 OUTPUT = "Hello, world!"
END

Example from hello-world:

          OUTPUT = "Hello World"
END

Example from the Hello World Collection:

* Hello World in Snobol

        OUTPUT = "Hello World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

OUTPUT = "This program will ask you for personal names"
           OUTPUT = "until you press return without giving it one"
           NameCount = 0                                            :(GETINPUT)
 AGAIN     NameCount = NameCount + 1
           OUTPUT = "Name " NameCount ": " PersonalName
 GETINPUT  OUTPUT = "Please give me name " NameCount + 1 
           PersonalName = INPUT
           PersonalName LEN(1)                                      :S(AGAIN)
           OUTPUT = "Finished. " NameCount " names requested."
 END

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	OUTPUT
Comments	✓		* A comment
Line Comments	✓	*	* A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
The Snobol 4 Programming Language	Ralph E. Griswold		1	5	3.80
The Snobol 4 Programming Language	Andrew Clues	1971	0	1	3.00
Snobol Programming for the Humanities	Susan Hockey	1985	0	1	4.00
The Programmer's Introduction to Snobol	Ward Douglas Maurer	1976	0	0	0.0
Snobol: An Introduction to Programming (Hayden computer programming series)	Peter R Newsted	1975	1	2	2.50
Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 15 - Reporting on Parallel Software to Snobol	Allen Kent		0	0	0.0

Books about SNOBOL from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
The SNOBOL 4 programming language (Automatic Computation)	Ralph E. Griswold and J. F. Poage and I. P. Polonsky	1971	Prentice-Hall
The Snobol 4 Programming Language	Ralph E Griswold	1968	Prentice-hall
SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities	Hockey, Susan	1986-03-06T00:00:01Z	Oxford University Press
The Programmer's Introduction to SNOBOL (Programming Languages Series, 3) (Elsevier Computer Science Library)	Ward Douglas Maurer	1976	Elsevier Science
Snobol Programming For The Humanities	Susan Hockey	1986	Oxford University Press

Publications about SNOBOL from Semantic Scholar

title	authors	year	citations	influentialCitations
SNOBOL , A String Manipulation Language	D. Farber and R. Griswold and I. P. Polonsky	1964	119	2
The SNOBOL 4 programming language	R. Griswold	1968	57	1
A history of the SNOBOL programming languages	R. Griswold	1978	4	0
ACM SIGPLAN history of programming languages conference SNOBOL language summary	Michael D. Shapiro	1978	2	0

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Books about SNOBOL from ISBNdb

Publications about SNOBOL from Semantic Scholar