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If you're worried about the collision, I'd suggest petitioning the machine learning people to stop using the acronym. ML the programming language had been aroun
by mumblemumble 7y ago
If you're worried about the collision, I'd suggest petitioning the machine learning people to stop using the acronym. ML the programming language had been around for decades before it was common to use ML to mean "machine learning."
- deckar01 7y agoI do not prefer one or the other. Abbreviations without context are not suitable for HN titles.
- mumblemumble 7y agoThe "Standard" in the phrase "Standard ML" is all the context that someone with a reasonably broad knowledge of programming language history (as is common among the HN crowd) would normally need. For everyone else, hey, click a link, learn a thing. Clicking links and learning about new things is theoretically a primary reason to come to HN in the first place.
- Tomte 7y ago> Abbreviations without context are not suitable for HN titles Write hn@ycombinator.com and get dang to make it a rule. Until he makes that rule, I call bullshit.
- deckar01 7y ago> use the original title, unless it is misleading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It is already part of the guidelines.
- Tomte 7y agoAnd nobody agrees with you.
- mumblemumble 7y ago"misleading" and "potentially ambiguous" are not synonyms.
- dang 7y agoStandard ML is a well-known language. A title isn't misleading if it refers to that.
- dragonwriter 7y agoML as a language name has a historical etymology, but its not really now any more of an abbreviation than KFC is, its just a name.