SNOBOL4

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
SNOBOL4

   <language> A quite distinct descendant of {SNOBOL}, developed
   by Griswold et al in 1967.  SNOBOL4 is {declarative} with
   {dynamic scope}.  Patterns are {first-class} data objects that
   can be constructed by concatenation and alternation.  Success
   and failure are used for {flow control}.  Delayed
   (unevaluated) expressions can be used to implement
   {recursion}.  It has a table data type.  Strings generated at
   run time can be treated as programs and executed.

   See also {vanilla}.

   SNOBOL 4 (http://snobol4.org/).

   (ftp://apple.com/ArchiveVol1/Unix_lang).

   ["The SNOBOL4 Programming Language", Ralph E. Griswold et al,
   P-H 1971].

   (2004-04-29)