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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 24 May 1994 15:05:57 MST
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From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,comp.text,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Spitbol reference?
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Date: 24 May 94 17:58:06 GMT
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In article <CpyDI0.M9M@world.std.com>, sgmlsh@world.std.com (John Smith) writes:
|> Joel Finkle <jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com> writes:
|>
|> >I'm looking for reference material on the Spitbol language.
|>
|> The vendor for Spitbol is:
|>
|> Catspaw Inc.
|> PO Box 1123
|> Salida, CO 81201 USA
|> 1-719-539-3884
|>
|> cats!support@cs.arizona.edu
I recall seeing the Catspaw SPITBOL environment some time ago,
and though I never used it, it looked quite nice.
|> --
|> <!--
|> "To imagine a language is to imagine a form
|> of life." - Wittgenstein,
|> Philosophical Investigations
Yes, and the form of life of which SNOBOL is a model is likely
to be quite foreign to you. It would be good to have a "pet"
SNOBOL (or SPITBOL) interpreter to help you get up to speed.
As far as references for the *langauge*, the following are
gathering dust on my shelves:
_The SNOBOL4 Programming Language, 2nd Ed., by Griswold, Poage,
and Polonsky. Prentice Hall.
This is the classic language reference text.
_The Programmer's Introduction to SNOBOL_ by Maurer. Elsevier.
This is part of a series in which each book seeks to introduce
someone already skilled in programming to a new language.
_String and List Processing in Snobol4: Techniques and Applications_,
by Griswold. Prentice-Hall.
Probably my favorite text on the language, this deals with
somewhat more advanced topics and algorithms.
Isn't it great that SGML is providing such a rich environment for
the application of what many of us might have thought of as dead
languages and elderly sets of text processing tools? A programmer's
paradise. I hope you enjoy your use of SPITBOL. It is one of
my favorite languages, though one hardly sees it used much any
more at all. Perhaps this type of application to SGML environments
will stimulate a revival.
--
Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, Compiler and Tools Division]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000
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