SNOBOL
Sign in to saveSNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- SNOBOL
- Programming language.paradigm
- Imperative, procedural, unstructured
- Programming language.designer
- David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky
- Programming language.developer
- David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold, Ivan P. Polonsky, and Bell Labs
- Programming language.latest release version
- SNOBOL4
- Programming language.implementations
- SNOBOL, SPITBOL
- Programming language.influenced by
- COMIT
- Programming language.influenced
- AWK, SL5, Icon, bs, Lua
- Programming language.website
- https://www.regressive.org/snobol4/
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.snobol4.org
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- inception
- 1962-00-00
- described at URL
- marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/fDqoS6
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13 sectionsContents
- Development
- SNOBOL1
- SNOBOL2
- SNOBOL3
- SNOBOL4
- SNOBOL4 features
- Example programs
- Implementations
- Naming
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.
SNOBOL4 stands apart from most programming languages of its era by having patterns as a first-class data type, a data type whose values can be manipulated in all ways permitted to any other data type in the programming language, and by providing operators for pattern concatenation and alternation. SNOBOL4 patterns are a type of object and admit various manipulations, much like later object-oriented languages such as JavaScript whose patterns are known as regular expressions. In addition SNOBOL4 strings generated during execution can be treated as programs and either interpreted or compiled and executed (as in the eval function of other languages).