Re:A Tour of Standard ML
by mumblemumble on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:49AM
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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 around for decades before it was common to use ML to mean "machine learning."
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Re:A Tour of Standard ML
by mumblemumble on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:58AM
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The "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.
Re:A Tour of Standard ML
by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:36PM
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ML 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.
> Abbreviations without context are not suitable for HN titles
Write [email protected] and get dang to make it a rule. Until he makes that rule, I call bullshit.
> use the original title, unless it is misleading
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is already part of the guidelines.
Re:A Tour of Standard ML
by mumblemumble on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:58PM
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"misleading" and "potentially ambiguous" are not synonyms.
Standard ML is a well-known language. A title isn't misleading if it refers to that.