StriNg-Oriented symBOlic Language: An obsolete computer language designed as a quick and dirty string manipulation/pattern matching language. It slithered out of Bell Labs sometime in the 1960s, peaking in 1967 with SNOBOL4. It was one of the first languages to use a a virtual machine thus anticipating Java and the like. It has since been out-quicked and out-dirtied by newer languages and tools such as Perl.
A sample:
OUTPUT = 'Hello World!'
END