http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=SNOBOL 2026-08-12T13:27:38Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SNOBOL&diff=8614&oldid=prev 2013-01-08T01:46:45Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 01:46, 8 January 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''SNOBOL''' is a programming language oriented to text processing. A notable feature is its support for patterns as a built-in data type, which could be used in pattern-matching. This is a capability few programming languages had until much later, when regular expressions were built into such languages as [[Perl]]. Even then, it took a while for regular-expression capabilities to catch up to SNOBOL, since classic regular expressions could not be recursive, unlike SNOBOL patterns. (The current Perl version does support recursive expressions, however.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''SNOBOL''' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) </ins>is a programming language oriented to text processing. A notable feature is its support for patterns as a built-in data type, which could be used in pattern-matching. This is a capability few programming languages had until much later, when regular expressions were built into such languages as [[Perl]]. Even then, it took a while for regular-expression capabilities to catch up to SNOBOL, since classic regular expressions could not be recursive, unlike SNOBOL patterns. (The current Perl version does support recursive expressions, however.)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>SNOBOL was widely used in universities from the 1960s through the 1980s, but has gone out of favor in recent years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>SNOBOL was widely used in universities from the 1960s through the 1980s, but has gone out of favor in recent years.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=Languages |subcat=Programming Languages |released=1962 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;SNOBOL&#039;&#039;&#039; is a programming language oriented to text processing. A notable feature is it...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=Languages<br /> |subcat=Programming Languages<br /> |released=1962<br /> }}<br /> <br /> '''SNOBOL''' is a programming language oriented to text processing. A notable feature is its support for patterns as a built-in data type, which could be used in pattern-matching. This is a capability few programming languages had until much later, when regular expressions were built into such languages as [[Perl]]. Even then, it took a while for regular-expression capabilities to catch up to SNOBOL, since classic regular expressions could not be recursive, unlike SNOBOL patterns. (The current Perl version does support recursive expressions, however.)<br /> <br /> SNOBOL was widely used in universities from the 1960s through the 1980s, but has gone out of favor in recent years.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> * [[Wikipedia:SNOBOL|Wikipedia article]]</div>

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