SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language)

Last Updated: 10/26/2018 12:00:00 AM
Site: http://www.snobol4.com/

SNOBOL is a programming language developed in the 1960s capable of symbol and free-form string manipulation that was of particular value to early computer-based Humanities research. SNOBOL4 was the final version released by AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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Creator(s): David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky (AT&T Bell Laboratories)

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Type of analysis: Programming
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Difficult
Usage: Widely Used
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

More information about SNOBOL and its applications within the humanities is available in the following articles:

Hsu, Robert W. \"A New String-Manipulating Lanuguage.\" Computers and the Humanities 2.5 (1968): 256-262. Web.

Forte, Allen. \"The Programming Language SNOBOL3: An Introduction.\" Computers and the Humanities 1.5 (1967): 157-163. Web.

Raskin, Jeffrey S. \"Programming Languages for the Humanities.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.3 (1971): 155-158. Web.

Turner, Ronald C. \"Letter to the Editor.\" Computers and the Humanities 4.1 (1969): 74. Web.

Wachal, Robert S. \"The Machine in the Garden: Computers and literary scholarship, 1970.\" Computers and the Humanities 5.1 (1970): 23-28. Web.

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