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| -rw-r--r-- | lang/snobol/pkg-comment | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lang/snobol/pkg-descr | 35 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/lang/snobol/pkg-comment b/lang/snobol/pkg-comment index b75886704078..c272ee75f841 100644 --- a/lang/snobol/pkg-comment +++ b/lang/snobol/pkg-comment @@ -1 +1 @@ -The gnu version of awk +0.99.4 release of ``The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4 in C'' diff --git a/lang/snobol/pkg-descr b/lang/snobol/pkg-descr index 3b0e0d1aaeb9..0e4ad565d0f1 100644 --- a/lang/snobol/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/snobol/pkg-descr @@ -1,22 +1,13 @@ -This is GNU Awk 3.0.4. It should be upwardly compatible with the Bell -Labs research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with -the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.) - -Patches 1 through 4 just fix bugs -- see NEWS and ChangeLog for details. - -See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. - -Known problems are given in the PROBLEMS file. Work to be done is -described briefly in the FUTURES file. Verified ports are listed in -the PORTS file. Changes in this version are summarized in the NEWS file. -Please read the LIMITATIONS and ACKNOWLEDGMENT files. - -Read the file POSIX for a discussion of how the standard says comparisons -should be done vs. how they really should be done and how gawk does them. - -To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2.151 of -texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory. - -The Info file now comes with the distribution. - -The man page is up to date. +0.99.4 release of ``The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4 in C'' + +This is a free port of the original SIL (SNOBOL4 Implementation +Language) macro version of SNOBOL4 (developed at Bell Labs) with +the C language as target, http://www.snobol4.com/snobol4-0.99.4.tar.gz. + +SNOBOL4, while known primarily as a string language excels at any +task involving symbolic manipulations. It provides run time typing, +garbage collection, user data types, on the fly compilation. It's +primary weakness is it's simple syntax, and lack of "structured +programming" constructs. However some consider the spareness of +SNOBOL4 syntax a strength when compared to some "modern" agglomerations +such as perl. |