From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA19369; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:23:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA20486 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net [216.35.73.164]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f55LNYr15744; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:23:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from int-nj2gw-3.online-age.net (int-nj2gw-3 [3.159.236.67]) by ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id RAA06377; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uswaumsxb4medge.med.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by int-nj2gw-3.online-age.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id RAA00020; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:23:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by USWAUMSXB4MEDGE with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:23:30 -0500 Received: from mrs.mrs.med.ge.com (MRS [3.57.196.1]) by uswaumsxbhmedge.med.ge.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MKQ4DDGZ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:23:27 -0500 Received: (from gurr@localhost) by mrs.mrs.med.ge.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id OAA16771; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:23:35 -0700 (PDT) From: David Gurr To: Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106052123.OAA16771@mrs.mrs.med.ge.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml and C-- X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > I had many interesting discussions with Simon PJ and Norman Ramsey > when they started to design their intermediate language. Simon liked > the name "C--" and kindly asked permission to re-use the name. It is apparently very popular. searching for C-- on google returns "about 52,000,000" pages. But it is less popular than .net which returns "about 122,000,000" pages or COM which is so popular google does not even include in searches. -D ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr