SNOBOL - Programming language

SNOBOL is a programming language created in 1962 by David J. Farber and Ralph E. Griswold.

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SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at Bell Labs by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of SNOBOL happened in Bell Labs
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SNOBOL on HOPL
ANTLR grammar for SNOBOL
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for SNOBOL
See also: (18 related languages) SPITBOL, Icon, Lua, COMIT, TRAC, JavaScript, awk, Perl, Regular Expressions, Algol, COBOL, Prolog, APL, BASIC, Fortran, C, Ada, Unicon
Read more about SNOBOL on the web: 1.

Example from Riju:

 OUTPUT = "Hello, world!"
END

Example from hello-world:

          OUTPUT = "Hello World"
END

Example from the Hello World Collection:

* Hello World in Snobol

        OUTPUT = "Hello World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

OUTPUT = "This program will ask you for personal names"
           OUTPUT = "until you press return without giving it one"
           NameCount = 0                                            :(GETINPUT)
 AGAIN     NameCount = NameCount + 1
           OUTPUT = "Name " NameCount ": " PersonalName
 GETINPUT  OUTPUT = "Please give me name " NameCount + 1
           PersonalName = INPUT
           PersonalName LEN(1)                                      :S(AGAIN)
           OUTPUT = "Finished. " NameCount " names requested."
 END

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		OUTPUT
Comments	✓	* A comment
Line Comments	✓	* A comment	*
Semantic Indentation	X