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BSD num?] List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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/