| 释义 |
SNOBOL Computers.|ˈsnəʊbɒl|
[Acronym f. the letters of ‘string-oriented symbolic language’, after Cobol, etc.: cf. string n. 15.]
A high-level programming language used chiefly in literary research and symbolic computation.
1964D. J. Farber et al. in Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery XI. 21 Interest in language translation, program compilation and combinatorial problems has increased... The string-orientated symbolic language snobol has been developed with these problems in mind. 1969Computers & Humanities IV. 74, I..began first to implement a year-long research project on rhythm in the Spanish language, using snobol for text-manipulation and fortran for statistical operations. 1971Ibid. V. 156 snobol iv..is a string manipulation and pattern-matching language and in this area makes both algol and fortran look clumsy... snobol programs are typically shorter in character and line count than a fortran or algol counterpart. 1971R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Ling. Research 165 The computer used in this study is the IBM 360/91. The language is snobol 4, Version 3, a string manipulation language developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. |
