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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: SPITBOL 360
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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1971 until 1984 when it was superseded by SPITBOL 370.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