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  SNOBOL4
       
          A quite distinct descendant of SNOBOL, developed by Griswold
          et al in 1967.  SNOBOL4 is declarative with dynamic scope.
          Patterns are first-class data objects that can be
          constructed by concatenation and alternation.  Success and
          failure are used for flow control.  Delayed (unevaluated)
          expressions can be used to implement recursion.  It has a
          table data type.  Strings generated at run time can be treated
          as programs and executed.
       
          See also vanilla.
       
          ftp://apple.com/ArchiveVol1/Unix_lang)" rel="nofollow">(ftp://apple.com/ArchiveVol1/Unix_lang).
       
          ["The SNOBOL4 Programming Language", Ralph E. Griswold et al,
          P-H 1971].
       
          (1994-11-04)