I don't think I want to imply that Snobol is dead: to me, it has more vitality than Perl. But I thought I'd let my title thank Mike Swaine for his blog posting Adventures in Technonecrophilia about my Programs That Transform Their Own Source Code; or: the Snobol Foot Joke. Mike concludes that figuring out how to solve a problem in Snobol is like doing a puzzle, and discovering the power hidden in this ancient language is like winning a prize. So I'll pose you two more puzzles.

January 24, 2010
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