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Re:Rewriting the Ruby Parser by hardwaregeek on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:27AM (#36310684)
This is wholly irrelevant, but I love the spelling of O'Caml like an Irish last name. I'd definitely frequent a pub called O'Caml's.
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Re:Rewriting the Ruby Parser by noelwelsh on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:34AM (#36310791)
OCaml was originally a contraction of Objective Caml, and spelled O'Caml. At some point this changed and the spelling without the apostrophe was adopted. What comes out of my fingers hasn't caught up, though.
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Re:Rewriting the Ruby Parser by jjgreen on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:18AM (#36311516)
Given the early logo for the language was Joe Camel, it would need a smoking room ...
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