Thanks for sharing your story! I also got started in the days of punched cards and line printers. I had used FORTRAN and BASIC before seeing SNOBOL, so SNOBOL g

Thanks for sharing your story! I also got started in the days of punched cards and line printers. I had used FORTRAN and BASIC before seeing SNOBOL, so SNOBOL greatly expanded my view of what kind of things a programming language could do to help a programmer do complex and interesting things.