$Id: README,v 1.95 2022-03-25 20:11:58 phil Exp $ 2.2 release of ``The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4 in C'' (CSNOBOL4) This is a free port of the original SIL (SNOBOL4 Implementation Language) "macro" version of SNOBOL4 (developed at Bell Labs) with the `C' language as a target. SNOBOL4, while known primarily as a string language excels at any task involving symbolic manipulations. It provides dynamic typing, garbage collection, user data types, on the fly compilation. The latest release can always be found at http://www.regressive.org/snobol4/csnobol4 **************************************************************** Copyright © 1993-2021, Philip L. Budne All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. **************************************************************** Documentation; Many manual pages, start with "man snobol4" HTML versions of man pages installed in /usr/local/share/doc/snobol4/ Scans of SNOBOL4 books; http://www.regressive.org/snobol4/doc/books.html For a good SNOBOL4 tutorial look at the Catspaw SNOBOL4 tutorial; http://www.regressive.org/snobol4/doc/burks/tutorial/contents.htm Also useful are the Catspaw Vanilla SNOBOL4 manual; http://www.regressive.org/snobol4/doc/burks/manual/contents.htm and the Catspaw SPITBOL manual: ftp://ftp.snobol4.com/spitman.pdf INSTALL Information on building and installing CSNOBOL4 README This file CHANGES Important changes since last release TODO.soon current top priority tasks (hopefully small in any release) TODO older/ancient identified tasks There is a mailing list for SNOBOL4 on Yahoo Groups: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/snobol/info http://www.regressive.org/snobol4/ SNOBOL4 resources Acknowledgments; First and foremost, I would like to thank Ralph Griswold, for all his invaluable help and time digging up old documentation! (as well as his work of 50 years ago, designing and implementing the language)! I would also never have succeeded without the help of Mark Emmer of Catspaw and his excellent SPARC SPITBOL product (used to bootstrap this implementation). The contributions of source code by Mark Emmer (SNOBOL4+) and Viktors Berstis (Minnesota SNOBOL4) have allowed me to advance the state of CSNOBOL4 in ways that would have been difficult or impossible. The following have also provided help, encouragement, support, input, historical background, testing, fixes, testing, money, etc (in chronological order); Bill Henneman Andrew Koenig Doug McIlroy Robert Dewar Alan Martin Jerry Leichter Scott Marovich Jonathan Chandross Randolph J. Herber Jules Gilbert Phillip Lee Thomas Martin D. Waller Burkhard Meißner John McHugh Chrystopher Nehaniv Arne Larsson Rik Faith Keith Waclena Steve Kibler Peter-Arno Coppen David J. Birnbaum Yuli Barcohen Stephen Del Rea David Feustel Laurence Battin John Refling Greg White Russ Urquhart Jan Bernard Chris Anderson Rafal M. Sulejman Ed Quillen Robin H. Johnson Guido Milanese David Stodolsky Robin Kay Sudarshan Gaikaiwari Bruce Axtens Dani Richard Meir Livneh Mark Laster Michael Richter James McKelvey Chap Harrison Robert Shanley Howard Modell Ron Hochsprung Steven Brenton Fred Weigel Anonymous Mike Greenberg Mike Alexander (SNOBOL4B sources) Clem Cole Harald Arnesen Kevlin Henney (Windows opendir emulation) Ozan Yigit (SDBM library) Jonathan Kaye Mark R Riordan John Willis Neil Rowe If you are interested in getting mailings about new releases, send me a timing report. I'm always interested in knowing what people are using SNOBOL4 for! Phil Budne