Multiple choice

An example of a special-purpose symbol-processing language is

  1. PASCAL

  2. SNOBOL

  3. FORTRAN

  4. None of the above

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B Correct answer
Explanation

SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language) is a classic programming language specifically designed for string manipulation and pattern matching. Pascal and FORTRAN are general-purpose languages.