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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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Writing Something Big

What better way to honor a programming language created to facilitate studies in digital humanities (application of computing or digital technologies to the disciplines of the humanities) than to run a study in digital humanities, namely, in text analysis. One of the fundamental tasks in text analysis is word frequency calculation, the process of identifying the most frequently used words. Later, you can use those words and their frequencies for text summarization and comparison.

Developing a solid word-counting program in SNOBOL isn’t so hard. The first step is to read the text from a file and normalize it—that is, convert it to the standard character case (lower or upper) to recognize and adequately count the same word ...

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