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pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:

>In article <20136.2...@merrimack.edu>, ger...@merrimack.edu writes:
>> In article <1990Oct01.142833.11862@virtech.uucp>, jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes:
>> > In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>> >> Well then, here's a likely topic for discussion:
>.  .  .
>> > In my compiler writing class, we developed something called "HUMPTY".
>> > I don't remember what it stood for.  It had ALGOL-60 control structure,
>> > SNOBOL string processing, LISP list processing, and a few other things.
>> > We wrote our compilers in PL360 on IBM 360s using cards....
>> 
>> 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?)

>Yu[, there was a SPITBOL and, yes, it was a follow-on to
>SNOBOL (the explanation I heard was that "SPITBOL was a
>much faster SNOBOL" :-)

And it *IS* running every day on our IBM 3090 under MVS and on our SIEMENS
7582 under BS2000, too. I like the compile and go feature and the easy way to
write powerful programs. A powerful copy-program with reblocking, restructuring,
... done by the run time system looks like:
     INPUT(IN,'INDD')
     OUTPUT(OUT,'OUTDD')
LOOP OUT = IN             :S(LOOP)F(END)
END

As far as I have heard a SPITBOL 386 should be available in these days 
by Catspaw, Inc./ P.O. Box 1123/ Salida, Colorado 81201/ U.S.A.
                  phone: 719-539-3884
They offer a SNOBOL4 (and a Vanilla SNOBOL4), too.
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