8 Apr
2024
8 Apr
'24
5:25 a.m.
On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:
[...]
SNOBOL fascinated me as soon as I learned in first languages survey
course (also covered LISP, ALGOL, others) in 1971.
In the mid 1980s, when we (IBM AIX people) wanted to move our PL.8 code
to C, I created a PL.8 to C translator in Griswold's Icon successor to
SNOBOL, then an ISC colleague took it over and enhanced it so that I
could focus on my other responsibilities. I'm told the enhanced version
was used quite a bit, but I don't really know.
Charlie
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I wrote a Fortran to PL/I crude translator in
SNOBOL [...]
Gadzooks... For our "write a simple compiler" assignment I threatened to
use SNOBOL, but my lecturer (Ken Robinson) threatened to fail me :-)
-- Dave