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Ralph Griswold Dead

Ralph Griswold
KindPerson
Born1934
Died2006
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Co-created SNOBOL4 at Bell Labs, then built Icon at Arizona — string processing and goal-directed evaluation.

Created SNOBOL Icon

Created SNOBOL (with Farber/Polonsky) and Icon — a career built on making string processing and goal-directed evaluation into programming concepts.\n\nRan the Arizona CS department; 'The Icon Programming Language' is the model language-book.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Griswold
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_E._Griswold