Snowball (programming language)

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The name Snowball was chosen as a tribute to the SNOBOL programming language, with which it shares the concept of string patterns delivering signals that are used to control the flow of the program. The creator of Snowball, Dr. Martin Porter, "toyed with the idea of calling it 'strippergram' ", because it "effectively provides a 'suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar' ".[1] In an amusing coincidence, the SNOBOL programming language was originally named SEXI - String EXpression Interpreter.[4]


  4. ^ WORTH READING Wikipedia entry on SNOBOL -- the TRUE story NOT Wikipedias, Dave Farber, Interesting People mailing list, 26 December 2008.