Just for the record; I looked it up:

SNOBOL by Farber, Griswold and Polonsky was developed at Bell Labs (!), 1962–1967.
Its patterns are essentially as powerful as context-free grammars, but syntactically they are rather different from regexes.
Etc.

I didn't find out if there are any records of SNOBOL influencing Unix regex processing.
Obviously, that is likely, and it is also likely it has been written up.

#PatternMatching
#Regex
#Regexes
#Regexp
#Regexps
#SNOBOL

@dougmerritt @ed1conf

@ovid #Fortran #COBOL #PL1 #APL #Snobol #algol60 #lisp #basic #jovial #pascal #python #java #c #cpp #plsql #perl #forth #ada #tcl

I worked with #prolog and could do maintenance on the code, but couldn’t really create from scratch.

I started in the 70’s, IBM 1620 assembler.

@pragprog I couldn’t resist this. The initial chapters (I consumed #Forth and #APL last night) are very readable and I’m looking forward to #SNOBOL.

I see that #PostScript will get an honourable mention in the final chapter as a teaser for a sequel 😀. I have a particular fondness for PostScript as writing an interpreter was my final year project at Poly.

@hl

Night of the Living #Sed

A Nightmare in #Elm Codebase

The Little #Pascal s

#BASIC Instinct

#Snobol Express [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069291/]

The #BourneShell Identity

The Man (Page) on #Eiffel 's (Numeric) Tower [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041628/]

#TCL Me

Next, #Goal Wins? [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10767052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2]

Single word:

Prolog [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955294/]

Shakespeare:

Much #Ada About Nothing
#MacLisp
#Asm : You Like It!
All Is Hell that Ends Abnormally
Love's Labour's ... #Lisp!

@markjacobsen @wfaler @alexandru

#FORTRAN IV
#assembly
#lisp
#algol
#snobol
#pascal
#forth
#PL/m
#C
#cplusplus
#java
#javascript
#bash
#delphi
#sql