My suggestion for describing and promoting SNOBOL's capabilities in Wikipedia is to include tasks that someone with or without a background in computer...
After distribution of my message a couple days ago, suggesting a task for inclusion in the Wikipedia entry about Snobol, I was informed that modern ...
... Well, given that the term 'regular expression' no longer means 'regular expression', I suspect that finding a task that's possible in S4 but impossible in...
Well, there are other things that one might do with Steve's A^nB^nC^n which perhaps might make it harder for RegEx people to follow along, but still relatively...
G'day everyone, I'm hardly the one to be demonstrating the power of S*BOL to the wider community, but I've stuck a bit of code in as a response to a posting on...
Nice, although your solution doesn't handle the multiple character cases.... that would probably require some kind of a recursive situation, such as maybe: dd...
... Very interesting, but, as someone on "StackOverflow" has pointed out, even the "Repaired SNOBOL4 Solution" is still not perfect, failing to correctly deal...
Hmmmm.... I was under the impression that the problem was something like: '#38; although mine should handle the case of & A too.... am I missing...
Yeah, there is a minor typo in mine. "&' should (obviously) be "&" instead. ... -- Gordon Peterson II http://personal.terabites.com 1977-2007: Thirty year...
G'day everyone Thanks for taking part in the StackOverflow invasion. Now that we're in there, we can add our two bob / two bits to various regexp and ...
... Thanks for keeping an eye on it. There's a lot of weird things about that site... I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how I had to maintain...
... I am not sure what is happening here. Firstly, Yahoo has cleverly interpreted what I wrote, instead of just quoting it. I wrote: [ampersand space ampersand...
... You may well be right, but who knows how many people read it on Wikipedia? I still think it would be worth while dealing with the "you can't say that...
What you said you wrote is what I saw, as you can see from what I quoted. The original code seemed to have the problem, as I recalled, that it only worked for...
... you do I will delete it without consulting anyone and use lack of citation as a pretext for doing so" problem What are the rules regarding citations? Would...
... should we ... That seems to imply that I know what I'm doing. That is not necessarily the case with respect to S*BOL. But yes, I'll keep my eyes open. ...
... Well, by the time I had finished writing my reply I had decided that you must have seen what I wrote, but I could not see this from what you quoted....
... you must have seen what I wrote, but I could not see this from what you quoted. Reading your reply in Yahoo mail I saw the modified version in what you...
... About [1] and [2] may I suggest dealing with XML files? It's definitely a real world issue, nowadays, and often very useful. I mentioned using Snobol for...
Interesting, but what about XML is hard to deal with using reg-exes? Does one need (say) recursion? ... -- Gordon Peterson II http://personal.terabites.com ...
... I'd say that XML needs its own whole "parsing process," as it supports enough sorts of "irregularities" that it's certainly not just a matter of "poking...
... True. At a certain level of complexity reg-exes are not easy to control, however. The problem is to find an example (1) readable in a few seconds and (2)...
I have been following this, and somehow I wouldn't use XML parsing as an example of something S*BOL does well. Yes, it probably does it better than using a...
That is being evasive, John. I have NO doubt that someone else has written XML parsing subroutines, and there are probably several of those around. The fact...
Well, that's kinda why I liked the problem about matching "complete names and international postal mailing addresses". It's a problem which is easy to...
It is not in the trival that SNOBOL excels – since in the trival, one can always do it using another tool, perhaps longer, but given the overhead of learning...
...    It is not in the trival that SNOBOL excels – since in the trival, one can always do it using another tool, perhaps longer, but given the overhead...
I prefer it -- for the same reason my teachers did not allow it (years ago). It make lexing and grammar scanning trivial (for left to right, top to bottom...
One of the cool things about S'BOL is that it was NOT designed by "language designers", and folks who knew what (classically) was "possible". Instead, it was...
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