An attempt to explain SNOBOL 3 within the confines of a short article would try the patience of even the most earnest reader. For the purpose at hand, therefore, it seems wiser to set a more modest goal: a description of some of the attributes and capabilities of the computer language SNOBOL3 that m
Beyond SNOBOL: The icon programming language
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 529 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4817
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