On the 15th Anniversary of the first public release of CSNOBOL4, and 3 years since the last, I've built a new release: 1.2. The changes are small, and are...
Thank you Phil. Is there any particular processor, that you would like it tested/timed on. Can test a range of Intel and AMD processors on XP, Vista (if...
... Thank you, Phil (for this and all releases so far). 1.2 already did quite complicated data massaging job for me (causing jaws of my colleagues to drop ;-)...
Recently someone decided to delete from the Wikipedia page on SNOBOL the statement that SNOBOL pattern-matching was more powerful than regular expressions. He...
Thanks for pointing this out!! I don't know who the WikiNazis are that won't let us edit the initial portion of the article (where they talk about AWK and...
Hi Gordon, ... Click "Edit This Page" on the row of tabs at the very top. I just made a trivial grammar change and posted it with no trouble. Regards, KGB ... ...
AHA!!! Thanks. I had been looking for the "edit" tag next to the other additional sections, and didn't see anything equivalent for the first section. See...
... I liked it just fine, but your edits were removed within an hour or so. On the plus side, I sent an e-mail to Dave Farber and he supplied the true story...
... Hmmmm.... any idea why? ... I'm surprised you didn't include a little bit more of the story... especially since the newbies don't understand the thing...
... or so. ... From the Talk page: I boldly edited Gep2's recent edit to add a NPOV. If there are going to be definitive statements about the relative power of...
Well, I was there at the time, and he presumably wasn't... so I don't know why he doesn't believe something coming from someone with almost 40 years of...
Gordon, ... Wikipedia values verifiability over 'truth'. The problem is that there are lots of people claiming this that or the other (I appreciate that in...
And that's exactly the problem. Most of this stuff hasn't been published, and with this kind of assholeish editing, a lot of it never will be recorded...
... Maybe a solution to this problem would be to replace statements with examples. The SNOBOL entry in Wikipedia is much shorter than that of Icon, for...
... Well, I posted a brief intro to the language, with some examples, and that seemingly got removed too. (Agreed that it needed some formatting editing, I'm...
... Then give that example :) ... Gordon, I too, like Olivier, think that a couple of examples will make the Wikipedia Snobol page much more informative, and ...
... I would have to dig it out, I originally wrote that one probably 15+ years ago. And it IS a very complex pattern, definitely not something to present...
Perhaps a reference to this: http://www.oberon2005.ru/paper/rg1978-01e.pdf might be of some use. Regards, KGB ... Kevin G. Barkes Email: kgbarkes@... KGB...
Very cool find!!! I haven't read it all yet, but obviously a treasure trove of information. I wonder, do we just provide a link to the URL? I wonder how...
... I myself am not sufficiently competent in either SNOBOL4 or regular expressions to make a meaningful edit of the Wikipedia page on SNOBOL4. However, I will...
It has been fascinating to see what I have stirred up, both here and on Wikipedia. I have a whole host of thoughts on the matter, but for now limited time...
After I wrote my last post I found that Kevin Barkes had posted a link to a pdf. As I write this I am waiting for it to download on the slow dial-up connection...
Paul Bartlett posted: "I myself am not sufficiently competent in either SNOBOL4 or regular expressions to make a meaningful edit of the Wikipedia page on...
... This would be meaningful only for the sort of regular expressions that are equivalent to regular grammars, i.e. nothing really used by anybody in any ...
While it's nice to have something to talk about from an academic standpoint, the whole "language theory" aspect of computing is probably way too arcane for...
... I completely agree. I simply answered the suggestion that there would be a theoretical superiority of SNOBOL expressions with regards to regular ...
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