CSE325 Lecture 2 Evolutionof Prog Langs
CSE325 Lecture 2 Evolutionof Prog Langs
EVOLUTION OF THE
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
CSE 325/CSE 425:
CONCEPTS OF
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
• SNOBOL:
• Designed as a string manipulation language at Bell Labs
by Farber, Griswold, and Polensky in 1964
• Powerful operators for string pattern matching.
• Slower than alternative languages (and thus no longer
used for writing editors).
• Still used for certain text processing tasks.
THE BEGINNING OF DATA
ABSTRACTION: SIMULA 67