10 Apr
2024
10 Apr
'24
3:41 a.m.
On 2024-04-07 19:25, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote (in part):
On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
I recall a job cards lying around the card readers with ICEBOL written
on them. This may have been a local Toronto variant (in the 1970s).
S.
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.
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