SNOBOL4 is the fourth and latest incarnation of a series of special purpose programming languages for character string manipulation.

It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto ’ s City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth city hall ( adjacent to the third, on Queen Street ) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the Ontario Court of Justice.

Each technique has its purpose — the first provides color accuracy ( for photorealist painting ), the second provides color variety ( especially in dark colors ), the third produces many " wet in wet " effects between wetter and drier paint areas ( for greater color expressiveness ), the fourth can produce a variety of luminous, iridescent or " broken color " effects, similar to mixtures with pastel chalks.

The fourth cause is the good, or the purpose and end of a thing, known as telos.

The origin and underlying purpose of quartering is to express inheritance by female succession: when a female heir ( who has no brothers, or whose brothers have all preceded her in death ) dies, her son ( only after her death ) quarters her arms with those of his father, placing the father's arms in the first ( upper left ) and fourth ( lower right ) quarters and his mother's arms in the second ( upper right ) and third ( lower left ).

) While the members of Rube's team of reapers are instructed to never reap animals, George ( and Reggie ) do meet a child reaper who reaps the souls of animals — suggesting that there may be a fourth division that exists for this purpose.

According to the George C. Marshall Institute, the UCS was the fourth-largest recipient of foundation grants for climate studies in the period 2000 – 2002, a fourth of its $ 24M grant income being for that purpose.

( The fourth prisoner is irrelevant to the puzzle: his only purpose is to wear the fourth hat ).

The first bone strips suitable for this purpose come from " graves of the fourth or third centuries " BCE.

" GameSpot gave the game a score of 1. 3 out of 10, making it the fourth lowest rated game by GameSpot, declaring that " This is easily the worst game I've ever played ... it serves no purpose other than to firmly establish the bottom of the barrel ".

Each station had a purpose, for example the fourth station was the station of Kamare, which cooled the oar of Amun.

In 1798, the Governors announced that the Hospital was primarily for the purpose of medical treatment, secondly for surgical treatment and thirdly for treatment of “ maniacs ” ( a fourth listed purpose was for “ lying-in ” woman, post-partum treatment of women ).

* In 2007, the short-lived ABC drama-thriller Traveler, the fourth branch existed as a secret society created by the Founding Fathers and composed of the oldest families in the United States, whose purpose is to implement checks and balances on the U. S. government to guide the true course of America.

Brett Favre threw four touchdown passes during the game, and Brooking argued that since the Vikings had already won by the fourth quarter, the last pass was unnecessary, unsportsmanlike, and served no purpose other than to run the score up and pad Favre's stats.

Some orders add to the three evangelical counsels special vows inspired by the purpose of their own founder ( see in particular the fourth vow unique to the Society of Jesus ).

The Court decided not to answer the fourth question as it served " no legal purpose ".

Standard Touch-Tone phones are able to generate 7 tones in a grid of 3 by 4, while some special purpose phones added a fourth column of keys A, B, C and D, which were generally reserved for military use ( in the AUTOVON system ).

According to an NBC Interdepartment Correspondence memo, dated April 7, 1933 documents the conception and initial purpose of the fourth chime.

The fourth button is used specifically for taunts which has no purpose beyond annoying the opponent or showing off.

With the purpose of celebrating the fourth centenary of Santiago's foundation by Pedro de Valdivia, Chile requested to host this tournament's edition.

Since the vision of Saint Padmasambhava ( Guru Rim-bo-che ) had predicted the essentiality of a fourth person for the purpose, the Lamas went in pursuit of the fourth person, as the three lamas represented three directions of North, South and West in Tibet.

The purpose of the voyage was to test and document the seaworthiness, speed and maneuverability of the ship on the rough open sea and in coastal waters with treacherous currents.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

Over time, the descendants of the surviving loyal crew have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship and lapsed into a pre-technological culture marked by superstition, wherein the word " Ship " is become a synonym of " cosmos ", so that " To move the ship " is considered an oxymoron, and references to the Ship's " voyage " are interpreted as metaphor.

Although the principal purpose of the voyage was to find the Northwest Passage, several objects of scientific curiosity were deemed worthy of investigation, such as the location of the Earth's north magnetic pole and the behaviour of pendulums in high latitudes.

In December 1909, businessman and philanthropist Anthony R. Kuser proposed to the zoo that Beebe be allowed to go on a voyage around the world for the purpose of documenting the world's pheasants, which would be financed by Kuser.

The category does not include ferries or other vessels engaged in short-sea trading, nor dedicated cruise ships where the voyage itself, and not transportation, is the prime purpose of the trip.

An expedition typically refers to a long journey or voyage undertaken for a specific purpose, often exploratory, scientific, geographic, military or political in nature.

A main purpose of the voyage was to search for Terra Australis, which eluded them.

There were many such voyages of women to America for this purpose ( the 1619 voyage being the first ), with the women promised free passage and trousseaus for their trouble.

In 1767, he made a voyage to the East Indies in the British East India Company's service, and put £ 2000 lent him by an uncle to such good purpose in a private trading venture that he laid the foundation of a handsome fortune.

:" I should have liked to have spent the night in the lee of the island but the purpose of my voyage was not to make discoveries.

Financial backers, who would accept some of the risk on a given venture ( historically a sea voyage with associated risks of shipwreck ) in exchange for a premium, would literally write their names under the risk information that was written on a Lloyd's slip created for this purpose.

Or one could suppose that after some evil thoughts by Diego Velázquez, promptly rebuked and found blameworthy by the other Spaniards, who furthermore were willing to continue without Indians in Cuba, the voyage was planned exclusively as one of discovery and conquest, and for that purpose they brought the Veedor, and such a good pilot.

Hawkins, however, in an account of the voyage written thirty years afterwards, maintained, and by that time perhaps had really persuaded himself, that his expedition was undertaken purely for the purpose of geographical discovery.

There were two very damning pieces of evidence: the testimony of Edward Bright, the ship's carpenter, which alone of the accusations Doughty openly denied, and Doughty's own admission that he had disclosed the true purpose of their voyage to Lord William Burghley, a staunch advocate of avoiding trouble with the Spanish.

The purpose of the voyage was to explore and make a rough survey of the northern and north-west coasts of Australia.

Cabot had always been interested in making a voyage to Asia through the Arctic, and for this purpose King Edward VI chartered an association of English merchants, the Company of Merchant Adventurers in 1552-1553, with the Duke of Northumberland as principal patron.

A 1900 article reported that “ Mr. Capewell ’ s tenacity of purpose has brought him to the top and it is Hartford ’ s boast that he is one of the men who has done much toward making the city known the world over .” Capewell was among the passengers who attended the maiden voyage of the RMS Lusitania in September 1907.

No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.

Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.