Snobol was a major part of my formative years in computer science. I don’t recall how I came across the language, but it spoke to me in all sorts of ways. - El

Snobol was a major part of my formative years in computer science. I don’t recall how I came across the language, but it spoke to me in all sorts of ways. - Elegant and weird syntax and structure. - Powerful pattern matching. - It was the first GCed language I used. - The Griswold, Poage and Polonsky book on Snobol4. A classic in the K&R mold, to my mind. - Took 2 compiler courses from RBK Dewar who worked on the Spitbol implementation. Great teacher, fantastic courses, with lots of insight into the Spitbol project and his research on the SETL language. - Wrote software for my MSc thesis in Snobol4. It used so much memory that I had to book the school’s IBM 370 at 4AM to run the software. I think I got something like 1-2 MB of memory.