Why don't you guys change the subject. I keep reading this junk thinking there's some vestige of the original thread, which was of value to the list and of interest to me.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 4/12/2005 5:35:37 PM > Subject: Re: A pic from second roll of film in MX > > My IBM-360/370 assembly language class "project" was to build a SNOBOL > compiler. (It's not like I chose to do that, it was required of > everyone...) > > Doug Franklin wrote: > > >On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:24:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >>Well none of the above makes any sense to me except that I *know* > >>SNO-BOL is a toilet cleaner. > >> > >> > > > >It's also an early 1960's programming language that focuses on > >processing strings and doing pattern matching. An early name for it > >was SEXI (String EXtraction Interpreter). One implementation was > >called SPITBOL. > > > >TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke >
