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Snowball

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Snowball

Summary

Snowball is a programming language[1]. Snowball draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (programming_language category, ranking #133 of 742).[2]

Key Facts

  • Snowball's instance of is recorded as programming language[3].
  • SNOBOL is named after Snowball[4].
  • Snowball's developer is recorded as Q6776395[5].
  • Snowball's copyright license is recorded as 3-clause BSD License[6].
  • Snowball's software version identifier is recorded as 2.0.0[7].
  • Snowball's software version identifier is recorded as 2.1.0[8].
  • Snowball's software version identifier is recorded as 2.2.0[9].
  • Snowball's software version identifier is recorded as 3.0.0[10].
  • Snowball's software version identifier is recorded as 3.0.1[11].
  • Snowball's official website is recorded as https://snowballstem.org/[12].
  • Snowball's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball[13].
  • Snowball's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/snowball[14].

Body

Designation and Status

Snowball's instance of is recorded as programming language[3].

History and Context

SNOBOL is named after Snowball[4].

Why It Matters

Snowball draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (programming_language category, ranking #133 of 742).[2]

Related Entities

programming language SNOBOL

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Github-wiki-bot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Freebase id → /m/03py_v
    Copyright license → 3-clause BSD License
    Freebase id → —
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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