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SNOBOL is an acronym for: StriNg-Oriented symBOlic Language. Related acronyms and implementations: FASBOL (SNOBOL compiler), MAINBOL, SITBOL, SNOBOL2, SNOBOL3, SNOBOL4, SPITBOL (SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL), Vanilla. SNOBOL had simple control structures, except for string matching abilities and power similar to regular expressions. These are the sorts of jobs now usually done via Perl.

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