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Snobol

Snobol meaning

Any of a series of computer programming languages developed in the 1960s and based around text string manipulation.

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Complex SNOBOL patterns can do things that would be impractical or impossible using the more primitive regular expressions used in most other pattern matching languages.

Development The initial SNOBOL language was created as a tool to be used by its authors to work with the symbolic manipulation of polynomials.

However the macro features of the assembler were used to define the virtual machine instructions of the SNOBOL Implementation Language, the SIL.

It is possible to implement a language interpreter in SNOBOL almost directly from a Backus-Naur form expression of it, with few changes.

It is related to SNOBOL and SL5, string processing languages.

SNOBOL stores variables, strings and data structures in a single garbage-collected heap.

Some of this power derives from the so-called "SPITBOL extensions" (which have since been incorporated in basically all modern implementations of the original SNOBOL 4 language too), although it is possible to achieve the same power without them.