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From: corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan D Corre)
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Subject: Re: SNOBOL information
In article <3bkso1$ke2@usenet.rpi.edu> haakee@rpi.edu writes:
> I am writing a term paper on SNOBOL and would be very pleased if anyone
>out there could supply me with some historical information on the SNOBOL
>programming language. You can mail me at haakee@rpi.edu
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Erik
I should like to suggest, in all seriousness, that you first put yourself
through the monotorture of going to your college library and browsing among
the books that deal with the history of programming languages. I'm prepared
to bet that you will find lots of eye-opening, interesting and amusing
information concerning what you are looking for. Armed with the basic
information you have dug up (which will probably stay with you because you
dug it) you can then ask some specific questions which may get authoritative
replies, because there are people reading this group who know it all by
heart. (I'm not one of them. I'm just an admirer of that green book which
first piqued my interest in all of this.)
You are asking what in Hebrew terminology is called a "sheelat tam" (the
question of a simpleton). Why not spend a little time and ask a "sheelat
hakham" (the question of a smart person)?
--
Alan D. Corre
Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee