Talk:Ralph Griswold

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SNOBOL primitive by today's standards?
I'm not sure that the statement that SNOBOL is primitive by 21st century standards is supportable. While it's true that SNOBOL was card oriented, as were FORTRAN and COBOL, many have noted that SNOBOL pattern matching has advantages to facilities in more "modern" programming languages.

Perhaps an expanded comment about it being card oriented would be appropriate, or maybe such a discussion belongs in SNOBOL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JordanHenderson (talk • contribs) 12:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * SNOBOL4 is one-of-a-kind. It is so unlike anything then or now that it can't be classed as advanced or primitive. It's just ... different. People may well consider its flow-of-control to be primitive but that's like saying that Prolog's flow-of-control is primitive. It's only primitive if you ignore the automatic backtracking. SNOBOL has that same automatic backtracking in the pattern matching -- plus it has several different kinds of goto including a computed goto which is capable of transfer to dynamically created labels. As far as gotos are concerned that's pretty advanced. -- Derek Ross | Talk'' 06:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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