Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: Curt Sampson
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 23:29

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> zi...@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu writes:
> 
> In article <81...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> to...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
> writes:
> >In article <1990Sep27....@iwarp.intel.com> mer...@iwarp.intel.com
> (Randal Schwartz) writes:
> >>In article <3321@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink (Greg Goss) writes:
> >SNOBOL, SPITBOL - Any guesses?
> 
> Lore has it that SNOBOL was so named by its author because it
> "didn't stand a snow ball's chance in hell" of becoming widely used.

Hmmm.  COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.  Perhaps SNOBOL
stand for SNOB Oriented Language?  :-)

cjs
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
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