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SNOBOL Programming language

SNOBOL is a String-Oriented Symbolic Language is a programming language used for the string manipulation operations. SNOBOL programming language is used for the research tool rather than for the commercial application development. SNOBOL released many versions the most recent version of SNOBOL is SNOBOL4 but the use has faded as newer languages such as AWK and Perl have made string manipulation by means of expressions fashionable. SNOBOL was written in assembly language and was used for the symbolic manipulation of polynomials.

SNOBOL consist of sequence of statements:

the assignment statement,
the pattern matching statement,
the replacement statement, and
the end statement

SNOBOL programming code example

OUTPUT = "What is your name?"
          Username = INPUT
          OUTPUT = "Thank you, " Username
END

Features of SNOBOL

String Manipulation Operations
Pattern Matching
Dynamically typed
Interpretive language
NOBOL stores variables, strings and data structures in a single garbage-collected heap
SNOBOL rivals APL for its distinctiveness in format and programming style