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Educational content

Historical programming research

Specialized text-processing consulting

Legacy system maintenance

Academic publications

Preservation in academic and historical contexts

Influence on modern pattern languages

Educational demonstrations of symbolic computation

Integration with regex engines for legacy scripts

Limited but niche industrial applications

Numerical simulations

Web/mobile development

Enterprise backend systems

High-performance computing outside text tasks

Real-time or embedded system programming

SNOBOL is a specialized language for text processing and symbolic computation.

Its advanced pattern matching capabilities influenced many modern scripting languages.

Best suited for educational, historical, or specialized text-processing tasks.

Not generally used for mainstream software development today.

Is SNOBOL still used today?

Rarely - mostly for historical or educational purposes.

Can SNOBOL handle numbers?

Yes, but limited compared to modern languages.

Is SNOBOL procedural or functional?

Primarily procedural with pattern-driven flow.

Why learn SNOBOL?

To understand historical text-processing techniques and pattern matching concepts.