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List and String Processing Languages

Languages built to manipulate lists and strings of symbols rather than numbers. SNOBOL was developed at Bell Laboratories between 1962 and 1967 as one of the text-string-oriented languages of its era, and SLIP is a list processing language invented by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. Both were designed in the 1960s, when most programming languages were built around numbers, and each makes the symbol string or the list its basic material.

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SNOBOL - Wikipedia
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SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4.
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SLIP (programming language) (Wikipedia)
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SLIP is a list processing computer programming language, invented by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s.
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