Odd that COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) and DIBOL (Digital
Business Oriented Language) follow the paradigm, but SNOBOL went with
"symBOlic"...
On 1/2/19 7:22 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Which was a derivative of BCPL (so one could claim a successor of C
should be named P), ?, mathematician, beginners all-purpose symbolic
instruction code. R? maybe a subtle implication to be better/in-front-of
S. SNOBOL is the ugly one, since the SN come from "string", and the BO
from the middle of "symbolic".
R is the open source implemention of the S statistical/data analysis
language developed by Chambers at the AT&T Labs. S-Plus is the
proprietary,
windows-requiring implementation of S.
Rich
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