Re:A Tour of Standard ML
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:24AM
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I thought the M stood for module?
Nah, It's Meta (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML).
SideNote: I have a friend though, who used it for almost 15 years and thought the M stood for Math before we spook about this.
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It’s not misleading for anyone with a bit of programming language culture, which is probably the majority of readers here.
Standard ML is very well known, even to people who have never programmed in it.
I think you're simply wrong. You simply know Machine Learning and are probably interested in that.
I bet you wouldn't argue that Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence headlines need to be spelled out.
And what's the damage? There are very few Standard ML submissions here. You're being "misled" into reading a sentence or two that don't interest you like... once every year?
I find it very irritating how people try to make others give up established words and phrases. There will always be ambiguity.
See also "crypto" or the recent spat here on HN about an old SQLite page.