Anybody else tried FreeBasic (aka fbc)?

Kevin Cozens kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 16 19:27:09 UTC 2005


Christopher Browne wrote:
> - GNU Ada includes a sophisticated set of libraries including bindings
> to various databases, GUI toolkits, web tools, and such.  An
> interesting bit is that it handles complex string parsing via a
> library that provides equivalent functionality to SNOBOL, a noted
> language of yesteryear.

A friend of mine knew SNOBOL. I also remember (related?) languages SPITBOL, 
WATBOL, and I think there were a few other 'BOL' languages around when I used 
to hang out at the Engineering Annex at UofT.

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