Published on: 2025-07-10 21:38:27
Here’s my conclusions about the Snobol4 language itself, which get their own pages: In short, I think Snobol is fascinating. The singular focus on pattern matching kind of reminds me of Awk. Except Awk doesn’t do nearly as much with patterns, it devolves into a C-like script to do things with pattern matches. Snobol uses no such crutches, just pattern matching statements for all logic and control flow. Its purity is impressive. No kidding: Every single line in a Snobol program consists of five
Keywords: easy language pattern programming snobol
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