On the great big substitution problem

Authors:
D. W. E. Blatt
Affiliations:
University of Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1980

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Abstract

The middle ground between text editors and string processing languages is examined. A minor but nontrivial extension to SNOBOL is outlined to enable it to perform efficiently in this arena. A side effect is the provision of a virtual storage facility for long strings.