SPITBOL/370 is a SNOBOL4 implementation for IBM mainframes. The following Dr. Dobbs articles describe some of the tricks used in the code. Elegant is the wrong

SPITBOL/370 is a SNOBOL4 implementation for IBM mainframes. The following Dr. Dobbs articles describe some of the tricks used in the code. Elegant is the wrong word but both of these techniques are clever hacks. http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/misusing-floating-point-arithmetic-for-f/232300544 http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/misusing-floating-point-arithmeti... http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/some-programs-are-poorly-designed-on-pur/232300070 http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/some-programs-are-poorly-designed...