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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, [[Martin Porter|Dr. Martin Porter]], "toyed with the idea of calling it 'strippergram' ", because it "effectively provides a 'suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar' ".<ref name=Snowball-HomePage/>

== External Links ==

http://snowballstem.org/ The new official site <br>

http://snowballstem.org/demo.html Online demo of the snowball algorithm

==References==