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Subject: Re: Lisp history: IF, etc.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> Had a quick look at that. I would say the whole SNOBOL family has been 
> left in the dust by Perl.

SNOBOL/SPITBOL in the 1970s were sort of like Perl in the 1990s, I
think.  But, they are mostly of historical interest now.  I think by the
time Spitbol ran on anything resembling a personal computer or
workstation, it was already history.  It ran on old mainframe OS's and
there wasn't much overlap.