more on snobol still lives

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Denning, Dorothy (CIV)" <dedennin () nps edu>
Date: July 27, 2006 1:14:04 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] snobol still lives

I was one of those students. Bernie not only taught us Snobol, but MAD,
Fortran, Assembler, and more - it was quite a course! Snobol was always
my favorite language, and when I graduated and went to the University of
Rochester as a systems programmer, I used it to build a hash table,
which I slipped into my Assembler code for the Easy Control Language
(ECL), which we used as a front end for JCL. I also carried on the
tradition of teaching it, both at Rochester and then at Purdue.

Cheers,
Dorothy

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From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:48 AM
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Subject: [IP] snobol still lives



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From: "Bernard A. Galler" <galler () umich edu>
Date: July 26, 2006 8:34:15 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on snobol & java

**  You guys are writing about SNOBOL as if it is long gone.   I'm
still using it, more than once a month, for an application I have.
Actually, I use SPITBOL, a translator, as opposed to the original
interpreter, which was available at least until 2003, from Catspaw (see
www.snobol4.com).

I first met you, Dave, when we installed SNOBOL at the University of
Michigan as the first installation outside of Bell Labs, and we have
remained friends ever since!

I taught SNOBOL in every beginning software course at the U of M for 40
years, to show my students that FORTRAN and COBOL weren't the only way
to design a language.  I still meet people who remind me how they
learned SNOBOL in my course.  It had an impact!
Bernie

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