Captain Jack wrote:
> 
> Coding in SNOBOL is like writing a phone book because... well, because that 
> was all it was ever used for.
> 

Wow, it's not often I hear that language mentioned.  Apparently it was 
also somewhat popular with people in non-technical academic fields since 
they found the string processing capabilities useful.

One of these days I'm going to learn it just because I'm curious about 
it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

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