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Article #4855Re: Wild computer language names
From: s... Steve Simmons
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 12:02
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 12:02
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ni...@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes: >ger...@merrimack.edu writes: >>I can't cite a reference, but I once came across a derivative of SNOBOL >>called (no kidding) SPITBOL... >>(Anyone have a reference on this?) >Well, there's a SPITBOL compiler on the RPI mainframe. There's also >another variant (I assume it's related, anyway) called SNOSTORM. >From my old days at MTS (1978), I recall both SPITBOL and SNOSTORM. Spitbol was a SNOBOL compiler (as opposed to interpreter). SNOSTORM was a structured SNOBOL (standard looping constructs, pseudo-functions, all that good stuff), sort of like RATFOR for SNOBOL. SNOSTORM was written in SNOBOL (of course!) and was available for asking from University of Michigan. I belive it was written there by Fred Swartz. Fred, you still around?
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