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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

by Dmitry Zinoviev
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Patterns are not just diagrams that describe the way the world works, they are the world.

Alan Watts, English writer and speaker

Chapter 5Streamlining Text Processing with SNOBOL

How old would you estimate the field of digital humanities to be? The origins of digital humanities can be traced back to the late 1940s and 1950s. However, the term digital humanities first emerged in printed materials around 1982, as indicated by the Google Ngram Viewer,[24] and it only gained widespread popularity after 2002. Alongside the development of this field was the advent of SNOBOL (string-oriented and symbolic language), a programming language specifically designed for text manipulation and pattern matching. Developed between 1962 and 1967, SNOBOL was ...

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