Snobol for VAX/UNIX
Carl Landwehr
landwehr at nrl-css.ARPA
Tue Mar 26 08:23:22 AEST 1985
Thanks to all who responded to my query on a source for SNOBOL on VAX/UNIX.
Several people indicated they were interested in my findings, so I am
distributing them to the list. I received comments from several people, but
there were only two basic suggestions, as shown in the excerpts below:
1. Use ICON, a successor to SNOBOL that is distributed with Berkeley Unix:
You should look into Snobol's successor language, Icon. There is an
excellent book about it by Griswold & Griswold: The_Icon_Programming_
Language, from Prentice-Hall, 1983 (ISBN 0-13-449777-5). The language
is available for a nominal distribution fee ($15) for both the vax
and the sun. Inquire to icon-project.arizona at csnet-relay.
2. Use a commercial Spitbol compiler (compiled SNOBOL4) available from
Dewar Information Systems Corporation:
I work for DISC which distributes SPITBOL for VAXes and IBM mainframes.
I have a version of SPITBOL that costs $1195 and runs under VAX/UNIX
BSD 4.1, BSD4.2, SYS III, and SYS V. There are [not? -CEL] implementations
yet for M68000s.
Please send me your "real" mailing address and I'll mail you our information
packet.
Robert E. Goldberg
c/o Dewar Information Systems Corp.,
221 West Lake Street,
Oak Park, IL 60302,
U.S.A
(312) 524-1644
(...!ihnp4!iitcs!goldberg)
Thanks to all for your interest and cooperation.
--Carl Landwehr
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