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SPITBOL x64 provides raw power and speed for non-numeric computation on the x86_64 architecture

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2015-08-22 · latest 2025-05-13

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  1. …language used in Spitbol, is far more interesting than today's popular programming languages, IMHO. https://github.com/spitbol/x64/raw/master/sbl.min https://github.com/hardbol/spitbol/raw/master/docs/minimal-r...
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2022-06-29 · in Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar (2015)
  2. …You can play with SNOBOL4 on x86 [2]. [1] http://www.snobol4.org/docs/burks/tutorial/ch4.htm [2] https://github.com/spitbol/x64
    comment by mci · 2019-10-15 · in Getting started with regular expressions: An example
  3. https://github.com/spitbol/x64/blob/master/demos/sentenc.sbl In Python, you would probably use regex for the pattern matching. In SPITBOL, you can accomplish the task at the language level. I doubt the pattern matching is as capable as…
    comment by coderdude · 2015-08-22 · in On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)