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STRING ORIENTED SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE

Specialty Definition: STRING ORIENTED SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE

DomainDefinition

Computing

String Oriented Symbolic Language (SNOBOL) A string processing language for text and formula manipulation written by David Farber, Ralph Griswold, and I. Polonsky of Bell Labs in 1962-3. SNOBOL had only simple control structures but provided a rich string-matching formalism of power comparable to regular expressions but implementated differently. People used it for simple natural language processing analysis tasks well into the 1980s. Since then, Perl has come into favour for such tasks. SNOBOL was originally called "SEXI" - String EXpression Interpreter. In spite of the suggestive name, SNOBOL is not related to COBOL. Implementations include (in no particular order): SNOBOL2, SNOBOL3, SNOBOL4, FASBOL, SITBOL, MAINBOL, SPITBOL and vanilla. See also EZ, Poplar, SIL and Icon. ["SNOBOL, A String Manipulating Language", R. Griswold et al, J ACM 11(1):21, Jan 1964]. [When and why was SEXI renamed?] (1998-03-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: STRING ORIENTED SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE

Specialty definitions using "STRING ORIENTED SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE": SNOBOL, String EXpression Interpreter. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: STRING ORIENTED SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 54 52 49 4E 47      4F 52 49 45 4E 54 45 44      53 59 4D 42 4F 4C 49 43      4C 41 4E 47 55 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001101 01000010 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#77 &#66 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0052 0049 004E 0047      004F 0052 0049 0045 004E 0054 0045 0044      0053 0059 004D 0042 004F 004C 0049 0043      004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

535452434841249524339485439382535947364946433724635484155354139

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INDEX

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2. Orthography
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