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Snobol4

Development tools · Tutorials and FAQs · Reference materials · External resources

Snobol4 is a string-processing language developed by Ralph Griswold in the early 1960s, which was popular for work in linguistics and artificial intelligence and which still has many devoted adherents.


Development tools:

Vanilla Snobol4, a free Snobol4 interpreter
Snobol4+, another free Snobol4 interpreter


Tutorials and FAQs:

A Snobol tutorial by Mark Emmer, adapted from part II of the Vanilla Snobol manual


Reference materials:

The Vanilla Snobol reference manual by Mark Emmer, adapted from part III of the Vanilla Snobol manual


External resources:

The Catspaw website, home of Vanilla Snobol4 and Snobol 4+ (as well as some very nice Snobol4 T-shirts, if you like that sort of thing!)
Peter-Arno Coppen's Snobol and Spitbol page
Gordon Peterson's Snobol4 page
The Dirty SNOBOL page