Re: Wild computer language names

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From: Andy.... Andy Linton
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 21:15

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In article <FDQ...@rpi.edu>, ni...@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:
|> Well, there's a SPITBOL compiler on the RPI mainframe.  There's also
|> another variant (I assume it's related, anyway) called SNOSTORM.

Eighth and Ninth Edition Unix have a further variation on this theme:

snocone - snobol with syntactic sugar

Is someone who uses these a 'snoperson'?

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