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This article is full of gross mistakes. For example it claims that Caml is "Cambridge ML" which is ridiculously false. Fact check every sentence. Really sad.
by burakemir 7mo ago
This article is full of gross mistakes. For example it claims that Caml is "Cambridge ML" which is ridiculously false. Fact check every sentence. Really sad.
- Svip 7mo agoFor those curious: Cambridge ML is a thing, but abbreviated CML[0]; and whilst Caml is part of the ML family, it appears to be unrelated to CML. [0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/FoundsCS/usingml.html https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/FoundsCS/usingml.html
- tromp 7mo agoCaml was originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml
- capitalsigma 7mo agoSupposedly it was named "caml" because the author was a smoker who enjoyed camel cigarettes, hence the joke that [later implementations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml#History) were named "Caml Light" and "Caml Special Light"