SPITBOL

tool: SPITBOL

Purpose: 

SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL) is a compiled implementation of the SNOBOL4 (String Oriented Symbolic Language) programming language. SNOBOL was one of several character-string oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s. The tool is widely regarded as the most efficient method of executing SNOBOL4 programs, due to the use of a garbage collector to manage memory usage and a compile time decision-making system.

Features: 
  • Character-string programming language
A&H use case 1 description: 
The 'Text database of narrative poetry of the Italian Renaissance' project used SPITBOL to analyse accentual structure, syllable divisions, alliteration, assonance and rhyme within narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance.
Publisher: 
Robert Dewar and Ken Belcher
Creator: 
Robert Dewar and Ken Belcher
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
Specifications: 
String Oriented Symbolic Language (SNOBOL)
Tags: 
spitbol
snobol4
string-processing
assembly-language
Licence: 
MIT
Platform: 
MVT
MVS
MVS/XA
Software/programming languages used: 
SPITBOL
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 12:24

project: Sound and Metre in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Narrative Verse

Grant Holder: Professor David Robey
An on-line database containing an exact, detailed and systematic representation of the sound and metre of the major narrative poems of the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance. The database provides a firm evidence base for the analysis, comparison and interpretation of specific structures, and combinations of structures, across a substantial corpus of related poetic texts. It also aims to develop and test the capacity of computer-based processes to serve the purposes of literary scholarship. [read more]