SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language) is a computer programming language developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T; Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s, others included COMIT and TRAC.
SNOBOL4 stands apart from most programming languages by having patterns as a first-class data type (i.e. a data type whose val...
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SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language) is a computer programming language developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T; Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s, others included COMIT and TRAC.
SNOBOL4 stands apart from most programming languages by having patterns as a first-class data type (i.e. 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. Strings generated during execution can be treated as programs and executed.
SNOBOL was quite widely taught in larger US universities in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was widely used in the 1970s and 1980s as a text manipulation language in the humanities.
In recent years its use has faded as newer languages such as Awk and Perl have made string manipulation by means of...
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