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].

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