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This is a free port of the original SIL (SNOBOL4 Implementation Language)
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macro version of SNOBOL4 (developed at Bell Labs) with the C language as
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target.
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SNOBOL4, while known primarily as a string language excels at any task
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involving symbolic manipulations. It provides run time typing, garbage
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collection, user data types, on the fly compilation. Its primary weakness
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is its simple syntax, and lack of "structured programming" constructs.
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However some consider the spareness of SNOBOL4 syntax a strength when
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compared to some "modern" agglomerations such as perl.
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