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A bit unfortunate choice of the name since there is another CIL too: https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-335/ https://ecma-
by neonsunset 2y ago
A bit unfortunate choice of the name since there is another CIL too: https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-335/ https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...
- someothherguyy 2y agoThat is CLI (Common Language Infrastructure)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
- tubs 2y agoPartition III: CIL Instruction Set – Describes the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) instruction set.
- almost 2y agoThere are a finite number of names, and an even smaller number of good names. But apparently an infinite number of hacker news posters who comment on every new project to complain that the name has been used before for something else. And even the fact that this is a fork of an earlier project and the name comes from that doesn't stop it! (I'm aware I have chosen a very weird thing to be getting annoyed at over my breakfast crumpets this morning)
- Philpax 2y agoI would normally agree with you on this, but these projects are in the same realm (language compiler infrastructure), so it's a bit more unfortunate than in the usual case
- fuhsnn 2y agoPeople are more triggered by "this is improper in my culture" type of comments, those tend to actually derail the thread.
- PeterWhittaker 2y agoNot to mention SELinux CIL, Common Intermediate Language, https://selinuxproject.org/page/PolicyLanguage https://selinuxproject.org/page/PolicyLanguage
- pkhuong 2y agohttps://github.com/goblint/cil/blob/develop/LICENSE https://github.com/goblint/cil/blob/develop/LICENSE Copyright (c) 2001-2020 (I first learned about CIL in https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/Papers/cil_cc02.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/Papers/cil_cc02.pdf) I guess ECMA should have done better research.
- fluoridation 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure 2012 is just the latest version. It was first published in 2001, and started in 2000. They're so close together that it's difficult to say if one would have been able to find the other.