Having actually tried to learn this language, I'm astounded by its pattern matching facilities. Makes grep look primitive. 

Being a slow starter with tcl, where would I start trying to 
  1. write a snobol interpreter in tcl, or
  2. write snobol pattern matching tools in tcl?

BMA

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''[escargo] 30 Dec 2003'' - I will just note that the successor to Snobol,
[Icon], also has a page on this wiki. It's pattern matching is different
than Snobol's, but also very powerful.  It is ''not'' based on regular
expressions, but does pattern matching with other facilities.

''If it ain't regular expressions, it ain't no good.'' - [LES]

Les's ideas are no better than his grammar.  The only advantage of regular
expressions over Snobol pattern matching and Icon string scanning is that
regular expressions are very terse.  Perhaps because of their terseness,
they quickly become unreadable as they become more complex.  Pattern
matching and string scanning are far more powerful, are quicker to write,
and are far easier to debug.  One writer said that if you have a problem and
you solve it with a regular expression, you end up with two problems.  If
you need to do anything complex with strings, your best bet is Icon string
scanning.                                         [Larry]
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There's the beginnings of a Snobol wiki at [http://www.liacc.up.pt/cgi-bin/casbah/casbah.cgi?operation=view&pagename=Snobol4_Spitbol] [BMA]

And a site about Snobol in general at [http://www.snobol4.org]. ''[escargo]''
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There's a brilliant editor/IDE for Snobol written in Tcl/Tk at Rafal M. Sulejman's site [http://rms.republika.pl/slide.shtml] ''[BMA] 15 Mar 2005''
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