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In article <iuj8bk$v5i$1@dont-email.me>,
 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

>      I still recall learning SNOBOL years and years ago by studying
> the SNOBOL source of the SNOBOL compiler while frantically flipping
> pages in the SNOBOL book.  My grasp of the language SNOBOLed.

You might enjoy looking at the SPITBOL operations that are part of the 
GNAT Ada Library in the package, GNAT.Spitbol:

<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_rm/The-GNAT-Library.html#The-GNAT-Library>

Much of the documentation is in the corresponding specification (.ads) 
files:

<http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/ada/>

GNAT.Spitbol.Patterns is an example:

<http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/ada/g-spipat.ads?revision=139296&view=markup>

The GPL version is available here:

<http://libre.adacore.com/libre/>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>