[comp.lang.perl] Snobol

worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (06/01/90)

   From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)

   There might be a slight performance penalty associated with the way
   SNOBOL4 stores strings, they are all kept in a symbol table...

That isn't really true.  In Snobol 3, all strings were kept in the
symbol table, but while some Snobol 4 implementations (the macro
implementation) did that, others (Spitbol) only put strings used as
variable names in the symbol table.

Dale