Algorithms in SNOBOL4
by James F. Gimpel · first published 1976
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on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗Yep, I recommend Gimpel's old book Algorithms in SNOBOL4 for fun examples (from the days when such a title did not mean an undergrad data-structures-and-algorithms curriculum).
on “A Git Implementation in Awk” ↗Heh. I got into computing in the 80s, and your other headlines are much more plausible. I did find a very interesting library book Algorithms in SNOBOL4 by Gimpel, so I actually got familiar with it -- but that was sheer luck. (The book's title is misleading now: it doesn't much overlap a modern undergrad intro to algorithms. It's more "here are examples…