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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" />
== Modern use ==
SNOBOL was designed to work with symbolic string data. Just in a few lines of code, programmers would instantly search, edit, and use string variables. [[Pattern-matching]] issues are well-suited to SNOBOL and derivative languages. Attempts to restore SNOBOL back to life have been made through out the years. In the post [[Cold War|Cold-War]] era, Ralph Griswold, the creator of SNOBOL, produced Icon, a language that was comparable to SNOBOL. It was never as Famous just as SNOBOL was to being too much specialized.<ref name=":0" />
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