Algorithms in SNOBOL4

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1. abecedariusOct 2021
   Yep, I recommend Gimpel's old book Algorithms in SNOBOL4 for fun examples (from the days when such a title did not mean an undergrad data-structures-and-algorithms curriculum).
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2. binomialNov 2010
   Reposting a dead post which should not have been dead, from abecedarius:

       These had high I-want-to-read-itosity, I thought:
       Abelson and diSessa, Turtle Geometry
       Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
       Aho and Weinberger and Kernighan, The AWK Programming Language
       Andrew Appel, Compiling With Continuations
       Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls
       Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls
       Leo Brodie, Thinking FORTH
       W. H. Burge, Recursive Programming Techniques
       Carriero and Gelernter, How to Write Parallel Programs
       A. K. Dewdney, The New Turing Omnibus
       Edsger Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming
       Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Computation
       Friedman and Felleisen, The Little Schemer
       Friedman and Wand and Haynes, Essentials of Programming Languages [1st edition]
       James F. Gimpel, Algorithms in Snobol4
       Paul Graham, On Lisp
       Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
       Grune and Jacobs, Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide
       Daniel Hillis, The Connection Machine
       Kernighan and Pike, The Practice of Programming
       Kernighan and Pike, The Unix Programming Environment
       Kernighan and Plauger, Software Tools in Pascal
       Donald Knuth, Literate Programming
       Glenn Krasner (editor), Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
       Susan Lammers, Programmers at Work
       Wm Leler, Constraint Programming Languages
       Liskov and Guttag, Abstraction and Specification in Program Development
       Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
       Chris Okasaki, Purely Functional Data Structures
       Richard O'Keefe, The Craft of Prolog
       P. J. Plauger, Programming on Purpose I. (and II and III)
       P. J. Plauger, The Standard C Library
       Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface
       Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
       Toby Segaran, Programming Collective Intelligence
       Toffoli and Margolus, Cellular Automata Machines
       Niklaus Wirth, Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler
       Witten, Moffat, & Bell, Managing Gigabytes
       (mostly from my old list at http://wry.me/~darius/personal/books.html)

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3. abecedariusMay 2023
   Heh. I got into computing in the 80s, and your other headlines are much more plausible. I did find a very interesting library book Algorithms in SNOBOL4 by Gimpel, so I actually got familiar with it -- but that was sheer luck.

   (The book's title is misleading now: it doesn't much overlap a modern undergrad intro to algorithms. It's more "here are examples and techniques of programming in SNOBOL".)

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