If you like to play with classics like SNOBOL in their original form, then you can run SNOBOL and SPITBOL under the Hercules IBM mainframe emulator.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-390/files/SNOBOL4/ http://www.snobol4.com/spitbol360/ (These days I use Perl for the stuff I used to do in SNOBOL back when). JRJ On 8/8/2015 10:14 AM, Phil Budne wrote: >> Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in >> languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer >> in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing? > > I don't think of it as "retrocomputing" per se, but I maintain a > SNOBOL4 implementation: http://www.snobol4.org/csnobol4/ > > Mostly I write SNOBOL4 throw away programs for textual > transformations. The biggest bit of programming I've done recently is > a package to compile/install shared libraries for extending SNOBOL4. > > Phil >
