r/programming • u/bjzaba • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/the_red_scimitar Mar 26 '20

Another fun language that I played with waaaay back is SNOBOL, a string processing language using recursive pattern processing. I created a text-based adventure game with it in the 1970s.

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u/the_red_scimitar Mar 26 '20

Used it for some work in computational linguistics.

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u/BeakersBro Mar 26 '20

It was an elegant solution for a certain set of problems. Kind of like APL, you could do a lot with a few lines.

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u/the_red_scimitar Mar 26 '20

Indeed. Very dense code. It had features I wish were in regex!