SNOBOL

SNOBOL is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1962
Designed by: David J. Farber
Developed by: Bell Labs
Implemented in: assembly language

Wikidata: Q522041

Influenced: AWK • Icon • Lua

Influenced by: COMIT

Programming paradigms: imperative programming

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Hello World in SNOBOL

          OUTPUT = "Hello World"
END
Source: github.com/leachim6/hello-world

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Latest data update: 2025-08-02