<s>
SPITBOL	B-Application
(	O
Speedy	O
Implementation	O
of	O
SNOBOL	B-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
compiled	B-Language
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
SNOBOL4	B-Application
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
targeted	O
for	O
the	O
IBM	B-Application
System/360	I-Application
and	O
System/370	B-Device
family	O
of	O
computers	O
,	O
it	O
has	O
now	O
been	O
ported	O
to	O
most	O
major	O
microprocessors	O
including	O
the	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prior	O
to	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
,	O
SNOBOL4	B-Application
was	O
thought	O
to	O
be	O
slow	O
,	O
memory-intensive	O
,	O
and	O
impossible	O
to	O
compile	B-Language
due	O
to	O
its	O
dynamic	O
nature	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
delayed	O
binding	O
prevents	O
everything	O
from	O
being	O
determined	O
at	O
compile	B-Language
time	O
,	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
adopts	O
various	O
strategies	O
for	O
making	O
decisions	O
as	O
early	O
as	O
possible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Recent	O
versions	O
of	O
the	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
compiler	I-Application
are	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2001	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
for	O
the	O
original	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
360	O
compiler	B-Language
has	O
been	O
made	O
available	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
MACRO	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
is	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
written	O
in	O
the	O
1970s	O
by	O
Robert	O
Dewar	O
and	O
Anthony	O
P	O
.	O
McCann	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MACRO	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
is	O
coded	O
in	O
MINIMAL	O
,	O
an	O
assembly	O
language	O
for	O
an	O
abstract	O
machine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
implementation	O
of	O
MINIMAL	O
that	O
was	O
designed	O
for	O
interpretation	O
on	O
microcomputers	O
was	O
done	O
by	O
translating	O
MINIMAL	O
into	O
MICRAL	O
using	O
a	O
translator	O
that	O
was	O
itself	O
implemented	O
in	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MICRAL	O
version	O
of	O
MACRO	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
,	O
together	O
with	O
the	O
MICRAL	O
interpreter	O
ran	O
in	O
under	O
40K	O
bytes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
code	O
for	O
MACRO	O
SPITBOL	B-Application
was	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
on	O
April	O
17	O
,	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
