landwehr@nrl-css.ARPA (Carl Landwehr) (03/26/85)
Thanks to all who responded to my query on a source for SNOBOL on VAX/UNIX. Several people indicated they were interested in my findings, so I am distributing them to the list. I received comments from several people, but there were only two basic suggestions, as shown in the excerpts below: 1. Use ICON, a successor to SNOBOL that is distributed with Berkeley Unix: You should look into Snobol's successor language, Icon. There is an excellent book about it by Griswold & Griswold: The_Icon_Programming_ Language, from Prentice-Hall, 1983 (ISBN 0-13-449777-5). The language is available for a nominal distribution fee ($15) for both the vax and the sun. Inquire to icon-project.arizona@csnet-relay. 2. Use a commercial Spitbol compiler (compiled SNOBOL4) available from Dewar Information Systems Corporation: I work for DISC which distributes SPITBOL for VAXes and IBM mainframes. I have a version of SPITBOL that costs $1195 and runs under VAX/UNIX BSD 4.1, BSD4.2, SYS III, and SYS V. There are [not? -CEL] implementations yet for M68000s. Please send me your "real" mailing address and I'll mail you our information packet. Robert E. Goldberg c/o Dewar Information Systems Corp., 221 West Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302, U.S.A (312) 524-1644 (...!ihnp4!iitcs!goldberg) Thanks to all for your interest and cooperation. --Carl Landwehr