SNOBOL

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1965)

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rragan

mnulli

holdenweb

joemcmahon

rrainey

undoingemptyvoid

bkmontgomery

rragan - 5 years

mnulli - 3 years

holdenweb - 9 years

joemcmahon - 11 years

rrainey - 45 years

undoingemptyvoid - 1 years

bkmontgomery - 1 years

rragan

1965–1969

SNOBOL 3 and then SNOBOL 4

mnulli

1969–1971

Snobol IV. In a compiler class and for a little bit of other fooling around. One of those languages that challenges your notion of what programming languages look like.

holdenweb

1974–1982

Implemented SPITBOL interpreter for DECSystem 10

joemcmahon

1977–1987

Discovered it by accident in college, and fell in love with it immediately. Most powerful language available on the IBM 360/370 machine; actually implemented some data migration software in it that needed to do complex name mapping from the IBM standards to Unitree Unix-like pathnames so that data could be migrated off the legacy IBM system in SPITBOL. First step down the path to Perl.

rrainey

1980–

undoingemptyvoid

1986

Tried it, played around with some samples. Did not GROK it though.

bkmontgomery

1998

Saw it briefly in a programming languages class.