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what in the world do you still write in snobol / spitbol? I haven't heard anyone even mention that language since 1983.
by davidwihl 10y ago
what in the world do you still write in snobol / spitbol? I haven't heard anyone even mention that language since 1983.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoPeople mention it here on occasion for how it handles string processing. Experts in such things might want to dive deep in a review of it for the rest of us.
- jsgrahamus2 10y agoIcon was also produced by the same man, Ralph Griswold. And it has inspired a newer incarnation, Unicon. I imagine each would also be pretty good at string processing.
- PeCaN 10y agoI occasionally pull out SNOBOL4 as a less-awful awk, mostly for poking around/formatting logs and such. Not a bad language honestly. It's aged very well.