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Article: 13864 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
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Subject: Re: C-Kermit FTP script
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Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
> Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Who remembers SNOBOL? Kermit scripts are kind of like that: with
> > each statement, you should consider what should be done next if it
> > succeeds and what should be done if it fails.
> >
> > - Frank
>
> Yes, the great string processing language with an interpreter written in
> VAX assembly language.
>
> Arthur.
Actually, SNOBOL way predates the VAX and even the PDP 11. My first
encounter with SNOBOL was on the IBM 7040/7094 DCS at UC Berkeley around
1966. If I recall correctly, the interpreter was actually written as
macros. To port it to a new machine you needed a macro assembler and
you needed to define each of the macros to do the proper thing. Some
friends of mine were working on a CDC 6400 implementation at the time.
Thanks for the memories...
--
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan