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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp history: IF, etc.
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:14:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:23:42 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL, where SNOBOL was StriNg
> Oriented symBOLic language) was a quite amazing 1970s(?) implementation
> of a language that could be seen as an antecedent of something like
> Perl:
>
> https://github.com/spitbol
Had a quick look at that. I would say the whole SNOBOL family has been
left in the dust by Perl. And by languages that were able to take
advantage of PCRE libraries.