29 Jul
2022
29 Jul
'22
9:37 p.m.
SNOBOL influenced Dick Haight's bs(1) programming language which
includes some SNOBOL features, a replacement, written in C, for Ken
Thompson's bas(1) BASIC implementation, written in assembly language.
bs (programming language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bs_(programming_language)
BS: a mysterious Unix programming language!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELICIa3L22o
Although I know of no applications written in bs(1), it remains to
this day in licensed System V Unix variants such as HP-UX and AIX.
Peace,
Dave
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 7:22 PM Stuff Received <stuff(a)riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
On 2022-07-27 21:03, Phil Budne wrote:
I recall seeing ICEBOL card packs at the U. of Toronto Computing Centre
decades ago but I know nothing more.
N.
--
dave(a)plonka.us http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/
Anyway, I
have got Phil Budne's implementation
C'est moi! SNOBOL came out of Bell
Labs in Holmdel NJ.
There was a SNOBOL3 implementation in Unix 6th Edition days called "sno".
As far as I know Macro SNOBOL4 (that my CSNOBOL4 is a port of) never
was ported to the PDP-11 (just not enough address space), but there
was a proposal (at least) for a SNOBOL4 implementation for the '11
called ELFBOL.
Macro SPITBOL (a faster implementation of SNOBOL4) was available on
the Research Unix VAXen (Andrew Koenig did a C-like preprocessor
called SNOCONE -- SNOBOL with some sugar).
Phil