Snobol4

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Snobol4 is a string-processing language developed by Ralph Griswold in the early 1960s, which was popular for work in linguistics and artificial intelligence and which still has many devoted adherents.


Development tools:

Software package Vanilla Snobol4
A Snobol implementation from Catspaw, Inc.
   ¤  Nov 1991. Freeware.
Home site: http://www.snobol4.com/
Software package Snobol4+
A free implementation of Snobol4.
   ¤  Mar 1998. Freeware.
Home site: http://www.snobol4.com/


Tutorials and FAQs:

Document A Snobol Tutorial
Adapted from part II of Mark Emmer's Vanilla Snobol manual.
   ¤  Feb 1991. Reproduced by permission.
(included in the Vanilla Snobol distribution; HTML markup by John English)
Document Introduction to Programming Langauges
A comparative study of programming languages, their development and the development of the programming paradigms that they embody.
   ¤  3 Aug 2001. Reproduced by permission.
Home site: http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/221_2/PLBOOK/


Reference material:

Document The Vanilla Snobol Reference Manual
Adapted from part III of Mark Emmer's Vanilla Snobol manual.
   ¤  Feb 1991. Reproduced by permission.
(included in the Vanilla Snobol distribution; HTML markup by John English)


External resources:

External website Catspaw
The home of Vanilla Snobol4 and Snobol 4+ (as well as some very nice Snobol4 T-shirts, if you like that sort of thing!).
External website Snobol and Spitbol
A collection of links maintained by Peter-Arno Coppen.
External website Gordon Peterson's Snobol4 page
External website The Dirty SNOBOL page


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