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Line 5: The creator of Snowball, Dr. [[Martin Porter]], ''" toyed with the idea of calling it ‘strippergram’"'', because it ''"effectively provides a ‘suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar’"'' (see the homepage). In an amusing coincidence, the [[SNOBOL programming language]] was originally named '''SEXI''' - ''String EXpression Interpreter.''<ref>[http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2008/12/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/0:180/20081226091150:1B4F85B0-D357-11DD-ABF7-AB09AB975BFC/ WORTH READING Wikipedia entry on SNOBOL -- the TRUE story NOT Wikipedias] (Dave Farber, Interesting People mailing list, 26 December 2008)</ref> The basic [[datatype]]s handled by Snowball are strings of characters, signed integers, and boolean [[truth ~~values~~value]]s, or more simply strings, integers and booleans. Snowball's characters are either 8-bit wide, or 16-bit, depending on the mode of use. In particular, both 8-bit [[ASCII]] and 16-bit [[Unicode]] are supported. ==See also==

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