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ACM SIGPLAN history of programming languages conference SNOBOL language summary

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The SNOBOL programming languages introduced or popularized most of the concepts of character string processing. The original SNOBOL had just one data type: a string of characters. It could appear in a program as a literal delimited by quotation marks, or as a value assigned to a variable:
PET = “MY CALICO CAT”
Concatenation, a basic string operation, forms a new string from two or more strings placed end to end:
MYPET = “HERE Is” PET “. ”

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    cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
    ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 13, Issue 8
    Special issue: History of programming languages conference
    August 1978
    302 pages
    ISSN:0362-1340
    EISSN:1558-1160
    DOI:10.1145/960118
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    Published: 01 August 1978
    Published in SIGPLAN Volume 13, Issue 8

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