me: okay lets check out this paper about the use of programming languages in the humanities
the paper: 
me: what. wait. *looks at publication date*
the paper: 

Electronic literature, tool-building, poetry, games, puzzles, &cet. 29.
me: okay lets check out this paper about the use of programming languages in the humanities
the paper: 
me: what. wait. *looks at publication date*
the paper: 
god i want to meet the one digital humanities apl user.....
It continually defies my expectations that "INTERCAL" was a silly joke programming language but "SNOBOL" was a serious one
Serious and hilariously influential! If my memory hasn't mixed up a bunch of things, SNOBOL was where we got regular expression syntax.
I hate that my reaction is "what's COGO and why is this the first that I'm hearing about it?" Oh, I guess I've also never heard of SNAP...