Tracy Logan

@tracylogan.bsky.social

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Husband, programmer, musician, gardener, biker, reader, etc.

Photo of my wife's Batking uke bass, showing the gorgeous wood top, the f-holes . . . and the bridge, with four thick white polyurethane strings
Image of the text from http://helloworldcollection.de/#Snobol, demonstrating a simple program in the computer language SNOBOL (unrelated to COBOL; its full name is "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") The header is a rectangle with a background that is approximately navy blue in color, and text in white that reads: Snobol The body is black text on a white background, which demonstrates a comment in the first line, followed by a line that demonstrates writing the phrase "Hello World!" to the output device: * Hello World in Snobol OUTPUT = "Hello World!" See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL for more details on this interesting early computer language; the summary from that article reads: SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.