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SPITBOL/370 is a SNOBOL4 implementation for IBM mainframes. The following Dr. Dobbs articles describe some of the tricks used in the code. Elegant is the wrong word but both of these techniques are clever hacks.

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/misusing-floating-point-arithmeti...

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/some-programs-are-poorly-designed...



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