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  assembly 
  apl (k4)
  forth (bootloader)  
  snobol (spitbol)
  C (small subset)
  sh (Almquist-like)
  sed (not GNU)
  nawk (do not use added functions such as strftime)
  execlineb


what in the world do you still write in snobol / spitbol? I haven't heard anyone even mention that language since 1983.


I occasionally pull out SNOBOL4 as a less-awful awk, mostly for poking around/formatting logs and such. Not a bad language honestly. It's aged very well.


People mention it here on occasion for how it handles string processing. Experts in such things might want to dive deep in a review of it for the rest of us.


Icon was also produced by the same man, Ralph Griswold. And it has inspired a newer incarnation, Unicon. I imagine each would also be pretty good at string processing.




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