[TUHS] ken's sno soma solver?
Jonathan Gray via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Dec 27 08:00:53 AEST 2025
On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 12:15:53PM -0500, Phil Budne via TUHS wrote:
> Matt Day wrote:
> > In 2004, dmr said this about V4 "sno":
> > > I think writing it was just a quick entertainment for Ken.
> > -- https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2004-June/004210.html
>
> In the archived message Dennis wrote:
> > The "application" that has survived is a
> > 1-page program that solves the Soma (or Instant Insanity)
> > puzzle.
>
> As a snobol(*) enthusiast, I can't help asking (21 years after the
> fact), whether the soma solver survives?
>
> (*) I did a port of the original Macro SNOBOL4 to C
> [http://www.regressive.org/snobol/csnobol4/], and since I learned on
> SNOBOL4, SNOBOL3 has always seemed like alien technology, and I'd
> love to see an actual program!
tuhs Applications/Dennis_Tapes/dmr_tapes.tgz
ken-sky contains soma.sno and ch.sno
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