Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it anyway:
Label.

Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :)

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:

> Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:
>
>  I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
>> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
>>
>> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that
>> prefix,
>> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to
>> see
>> it. Any hints? :)
>>
>
> Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is
> just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled
> arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing
> these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was
> later merged with trunk.
>
> Gerd
>
> PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
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