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== Modern use ==
SNOBOL was designed to work with symbolic string data. Just in a few lines of code, programmers would instantly search, edit, and use string variables. [[Pattern-matching]] issues are well-suited to SNOBOL and derivative languages. Attempts to restore SNOBOL back to life have been made through out the years. In the post [[Cold War|Cold-War]] era, Ralph Griswold, the creator of SNOBOL, produced Icon, a language that was comparable to SNOBOL. It was never as Famous just as SNOBOL was to being too much specialized.<ref name=":0" />
 
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