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From: Dave Plonka <dave@plonka.us>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and progeny [Was: Re: Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?]
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:37:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANPwAQZ90tx2e5ABjWZ=WU-kgYCaupWiHQ9dz949QEF0y+-qpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19b82d6e-6b8e-7b49-69ca-e63d0e3c5856@riddermarkfarm.ca>

SNOBOL influenced Dick Haight's bs(1) programming language which
includes some SNOBOL features, a replacement, written in C, for Ken
Thompson's bas(1) BASIC implementation, written in assembly language.

bs (programming language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bs_(programming_language)

BS: a mysterious Unix programming language!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELICIa3L22o

Although I know of no applications written in bs(1), it remains to
this day in licensed System V Unix variants such as HP-UX and AIX.

Peace,
Dave

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 7:22 PM Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.



-- 

dave@plonka.us  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-29 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-23  2:57 [TUHS] Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num? segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23  5:56 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-23  7:55   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 11:01     ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 11:20       ` John Cowan
2022-07-23 12:00         ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 12:49           ` Norman Wilson
2022-07-23 13:20             ` Rob Pike
2022-07-23 13:36               ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-07-23 14:33               ` John Cowan
2022-07-24 19:45               ` Warner Losh
2022-07-24 20:33                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-24 21:04                   ` Warner Losh
2022-07-23 17:35             ` Clem Cole
2022-07-23 18:40               ` Phil Budne
2022-07-23 18:51                 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-07-23 19:07                   ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-24 19:02           ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  0:30             ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  1:03               ` Phil Budne
2022-07-28  4:13                 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29  4:28                   ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29  5:07                   ` Tomasz Rola
2022-08-09  5:12                     ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2022-08-09  6:11                       ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 13:34                         ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 15:15                           ` Andrew Hume
2022-08-09 18:26                             ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 18:52                             ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25                             ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 15:39                           ` Richard Salz
2022-08-09 13:56                         ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 16:45                         ` William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29  0:22                 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and progeny [Was: Re: Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?] Stuff Received
2022-07-29  5:01                   ` [TUHS] " Charles H. Sauer
2022-07-29 14:07                     ` John Cowan
2022-07-29 15:37                   ` Dave Plonka [this message]

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