[Coco] And another question

[James Jones]

Sure, SNOBOL4. I don't know whether I still have my copy of Griswold,
Poage, and Polonsky stored away, but I may. It was sort of the ultimate
development of some pattern-matching based languages that were inspired by
formal language theory; the other one I recall was what, COMIT? [peeks at
Wikipedia] Yes, COMIT. I even got to meet James Gimpel once in 1979. There
are still echoes of SNOBOL in the C standard <string.h> routines (see
strspn and strbrk, and compare with SNOBOL SPAN and BREAK.)

James


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net>wrote:

> -----Original Message----- From: Mark McDougall
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> On 15/05/2013 4:09 AM, Sean wrote:
>
>  I like your response better than my initial thoughts.  I saw COBOL code in
>> a systems class, and said 'ooh boy I'm never touching that language!'
>>
>
> My Computer Science course was renown for being more 'commercially
> oriented'
>
> ...
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> Regards,
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> A friend of mine at the University of Minnesota was taught SNOBOL (sp?)
> back in the early 70's .  He was a music major.  SNOBOL was a type of
> string manipulation language that was more ideal for musical notes.  Is
> that language familiar to anyone?
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