Re: counting commas

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:24 PM John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:

> Another SPITBOL user lives??!? :-)

It's been decades since I used it.

> It should all be open-source by now....
> Is it?

http://www.snobol4.com/

A search finds this:

Well thank you so much John. They are giving away for free Spitbol 360/70, and for the past year I just so happen to have an IBM mainframe laying around again :-)

One of my CS profs in college was Glenn Manacher who had been a maintainer of Snobol at Bell labs in New Jersey.

https://github.com/spitbol/x64

I haven't looked at it.  I'm surprised it isn't in Debian.
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John Hasler
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA