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In this context, ML is Meta Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
by Loic 2y ago
In this context, ML is Meta Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
- kingofthehill98 2y agoThank you! The whole time I was like "what in the absolute hell is a ML language".
- high_priest 2y agoI've heard so much about Machine Learning in recent years, that I couldn't fathom ML be used in any other context & be understood.
- noobr 2y agothanks, i'm bad at abbreviations and don't like when people just throw them like this without first using the whole term at least once
- plorkyeran 2y agoExpanding this abbreviation conveys zero information. It’s a programming language named ML, and if you haven’t heard of it then giving the etymology of the name isn’t going to help.
- duckmysick 2y agoIt clarifies it's not something else I've heard of (markup language, machine learning). The ML abbreviation shares the space with other terms so it can be confusing. Compare it to HTML which is 1) more popular and 2) unique in the context of programming.
- jamwil 2y agoHuh? If I search ‘Meta Language’ I get the exact information I need. If I search ‘ML’ I get less than nothing.
- juneyi 2y ago> Expanding this abbreviation conveys zero information. It’s a programming language named ML, and if you haven’t heard of it then giving the etymology of the name isn’t going to help. Honestly kind of shocked to see this type of mentality...wow.
- thiht 2y agoThis is indeed an abbreviation, but it doesn’t convey meaning. At this point ML is just the name of the thing, it could not expand to anything and still convey the same meaning. If you don’t know ML, knowing what it stands for won’t help you. It’s like JS, either you know what JS is or you don’t. It’s not about what it means, it’s about what it is.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoYou are forgetting that looking up abbreviations of 3 characters is already very hard, and it becomes almost impossible for the 2 character ones.
- thiht 2y agoIt’s usually not when there’s some context. > A large part of why many people love Rust is that it's the first time they've used an ML family language. You wouldn’t search "ML" but "ML family language". Or copy paste the whole thing and ask ChatGPT what ML means in this context.
- mlindner 2y agoML is such an overloaded acronym in software that people really need to stop using it or ALWAYS clarify it. ML = Machine Learning ML = Machine Language ML = Markup Language ML = Meta Language And I always see ML in the Meta Language sense to be the biggest culprit where writers assume the reader knows it, even though it's probably the least widely known.