Snowball (programming language): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:45, 13 September 2011

Revision as of 22:57, 19 September 2011

Line 1:

'''Snowball is a stupid name ''' is a small string-handling [[programming language]] whose name 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’"'' (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>