Snob effect
noun
the desire to own something that is very expensive or rare, for the supposed status one would gain by owning it
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- Snobol
noun 1. String Oriented Symbolic Language: a computer-programming language for handling strings of symbols String Oriented Symbolic Language
- Snobol2
A SNOBOL variant which existed only briefly. It featured built-in functions, but not programmer-defined ones. [“SNOBOL2”, D.J. Farber, R.E. Griswold and I.P. Polonsky, TR Bell Labs, Apr 1964].
- Snobol3
SNOBOL with user-defined functions. Written in 1965. The SNOBOL 6.3 compiler for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 was written in SNOBOL. [“The SNOBOL3 Programming Language”, D.J. Farber et al, Bell Sys Tech J 45(6):895-944 (Jul 1966)]. (1994-11-04)
- Snobol4
language 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 […]
- Snob value
noun the value of owning something that is very expensive or rare, for the supposed status one gains by owning it