SNOBOLn.
/ˈsnəʊbɒl/, U.S. /ˈsnoʊˌbɔl/, /ˈsnoʊˌbɑl/ Computing.
A high-level programming language used chiefly in literary research and symbolic computation.
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1964 D. J. Farber et al. in Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 11 21 Interest in language translation, program compilation and combinatorial problems has increased... The string-orientated symbolic language snobol has been developed with these problems in mind.
1969 Computers & Humanities 4 74 I..began first to implement a year-long research project on rhythm in the Spanish language, using snobol for text-manipulation and fortran for statistical operations.
1971 Computers & Humanities 5 156 snobol iv..is a string manipulation and pattern-matching language and in this area makes both algol and fortran look clumsy. .. snobol programs are typically shorter in character and line count than a fortran or algol counterpart.
1971 R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Ling. Res. 165 The computer used in this study is the IBM 360/91. The language is snobol 4, Version 3, a string manipulation language developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
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