Snobol4

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SNOBOL4
       
          A quite distinct descendant of {SNOBOL}, developed by Griswold
          et al in 1967.  SNOBOL4 is {declarative} with {dynamic scope}.
          Patterns are {first-class} data objects that can be
          constructed by concatenation and alternation.  Success and


          failure are used for {flow control}.  Delayed (unevaluated)
          expressions can be used to implement {recursion}.  It has a
          table data type.  Strings generated at run time can be treated
          as programs and executed.
       
          See also {vanilla}.
       
          {(ftp://apple.com/ArchiveVol1/Unix_lang)}.
       
          ["The SNOBOL4 Programming Language", Ralph E. Griswold et al,
          P-H 1971].
       
          (1994-11-04)