From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: SPITBOL 360
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:52:29 +0200
Date: 2001-11-17T20:52:29+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9t6btg$2lv$1@news.huji.ac.il> (raw)
As far as I can tell nobody posted the following to c.l.a
>What is SPITBOL 360?
>--------------------
>
>SPITBOL 360 is an implementation of the SNOBOL4 programming language
>for use on IBM 360 compatible computers. SPITBOL 360 was the first
>true compiler for SNOBOL4 and is an incredibly clever work of assembly
>language.
>
>SPITBOL 360 was originally distributed under license, for a fee, from
>1971 until 1984 when it was superseded by SPITBOL 370.
>
>Effective November 2001, SPITBOL 360 will be distributed under the
>General Public License (GPL), for NO fee.
This is the original code by Robert Dewar and Ken Belcher, if I am not
mistaken.
Dewar's Ada version of the SPITBOL algorithms can be found in gnat.Spitbol.
Ehud Lamm
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2001-11-17 18:52 Ehud Lamm [this message]
2001-11-18 1:53 ` SPITBOL 360 Robert Dewar
2001-11-18 16:13 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-18 19:20 ` Ehud Lamm
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