From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15040 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2022 00:23:02 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 Jul 2022 00:23:02 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC4F406E6; Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:22:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail1.sentex.ca (vmail1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C51904014F for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:22:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: (Haraka outbound); Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:22:15 -0400 Authentication-Results: vmail1.sentex.ca; auth=pass (plain) Received: from [10.0.1.25] (198.27.14-65.ip.mltn.standardbroadband.ca [198.27.14.65]) by vmail1.sentex.ca (Haraka/2.8.25) with ESMTPSA id A19F4165-4C35-4070-ABB0-2C52B9B2B822.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:22:15 -0400 Message-ID: <19b82d6e-6b8e-7b49-69ca-e63d0e3c5856@riddermarkfarm.ca> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:22:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Content-Language: en-CA To: tuhs@tuhs.org References: <1oF87S-4zW-00@marmaro.de> <8NgHeeJiYEBE0zhtd9RdKIeYWcAwtxsnAj7YhVIvLpz-yt0__LeFvVzNNGgSNTeDGnVQy-qxkoHWvmRi84ybYyNAiMRDJuVoAaEG96UAu4s=@protonmail.com> <20220724190253.GA23421@tau1.ceti.pl> <20220728003014.GB6195@tau1.ceti.pl> <202207280103.26S13ZL5059300@ultimate.com> From: Stuff Received In-Reply-To: <202207280103.26S13ZL5059300@ultimate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Haraka-GeoIP: NA, CA, ON, Acton, 33km Message-ID-Hash: UMBXSJ3SY2UMRCDZTRMNNLG4JP4K4PQ5 X-Message-ID-Hash: UMBXSJ3SY2UMRCDZTRMNNLG4JP4K4PQ5 X-MailFrom: stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] SNOBOL and progeny [Was: Re: Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?] List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 2022-07-27 21:03, Phil Budne wrote: >> Anyway, I have got Phil Budne's implementation > C'est moi! SNOBOL came out of Bell Labs in Holmdel NJ. > There was a SNOBOL3 implementation in Unix 6th Edition days called "sno". > > As far as I know Macro SNOBOL4 (that my CSNOBOL4 is a port of) never > was ported to the PDP-11 (just not enough address space), but there > was a proposal (at least) for a SNOBOL4 implementation for the '11 > called ELFBOL. > > Macro SPITBOL (a faster implementation of SNOBOL4) was available on > the Research Unix VAXen (Andrew Koenig did a C-like preprocessor > called SNOCONE -- SNOBOL with some sugar). > > Phil I recall seeing ICEBOL card packs at the U. of Toronto Computing Centre decades ago but I know nothing more. N.