From: Anthony Tavener <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
To: Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:45:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=ouMSRyE8dFh++hW+G=ME8cUOjucsn=DUCkfXXhDD-oCJGeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAoLEWvz=6X0sqQ+u5MCLXvgTpNFd0fg4gsAZi1-rEEYZQ5GAw@mail.gmail.com>
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That's a very sensible naming. Then evolution takes hold. ;) Thanks for the
history!
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first "labl" implmentation was done by me, labl-light, an extnsion of
> caml-light with labeled argumnts for my master thesis. I named it labl with
> serious respct to Caml community. Not a joke. The real silly part is that
> the implmentation was lost due to a hard driv crash.
>
> Jun Furus
> On Aug 22, 2012 5:28 AM, "Anthony Tavener" <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> --
>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>>> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
>>> Creator of GODI and camlcity.org.
>>> Contact details: http://www.camlcity.org/**contact.html<http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html>
>>> Company homepage: http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-22 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-21 21:10 Anthony Tavener
2012-08-21 21:13 ` Raoul Duke
2012-08-21 21:19 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2012-08-21 21:28 ` Anthony Tavener
2012-08-22 14:33 ` Jun Furuse
2012-08-22 15:45 ` Anthony Tavener [this message]
2012-08-22 16:11 ` Adrien
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