[Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Anthony Tavener]

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I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?

OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that prefix,
even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to see
it. Any hints? :)

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Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Raoul Duke]

it was a fore-running harbinger of:
twittr
flickr
etc.
http://rekkerd.org/whats-up-with-all-these-missing-vowels/

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Anthony Tavener
<anthony.tavener@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
>
> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that prefix,
> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to see
> it. Any hints? :)

AW: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Gerd Stolpmann]

Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:
> I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
> 
> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that  
> prefix,
> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed  
> to see
> it. Any hints? :)

Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is  
just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled  
arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing  
these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch  
was later merged with trunk.

Gerd

PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
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Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Anthony Tavener]

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Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it anyway:
Label.

Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :)

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:

> Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:
>
>  I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
>> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
>>
>> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that
>> prefix,
>> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to
>> see
>> it. Any hints? :)
>>
>
> Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is
> just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled
> arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing
> these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was
> later merged with trunk.
>
> Gerd
>
> PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
> --
> ------------------------------**------------------------------
> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
> Creator of GODI and camlcity.org.
> Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/**contact.html<http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html>
> Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
> ------------------------------**------------------------------

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Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Jun Furuse]

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The first "labl" implmentation was done by me, labl-light, an extnsion of
caml-light with labeled argumnts for my master thesis. I named it labl with
serious respct to Caml community. Not a joke. The real silly part is that
the implmentation was lost due to a hard driv crash.

Jun Furus
On Aug 22, 2012 5:28 AM, "Anthony Tavener" <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it
> anyway: Label.
>
> Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:
>
>> Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:
>>
>>  I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
>>> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
>>>
>>> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that
>>> prefix,
>>> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to
>>> see
>>> it. Any hints? :)
>>>
>>
>> Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is
>> just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled
>> arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing
>> these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was
>> later merged with trunk.
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
>> --
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
>> Creator of GODI and camlcity.org.
>> Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/**contact.html<http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html>
>> Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>
>
>

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Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Anthony Tavener]

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That's a very sensible naming. Then evolution takes hold. ;) Thanks for the
history!

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com> wrote:

> The first "labl" implmentation was done by me, labl-light, an extnsion of
> caml-light with labeled argumnts for my master thesis. I named it labl with
> serious respct to Caml community. Not a joke. The real silly part is that
> the implmentation was lost due to a hard driv crash.
>
> Jun Furus
> On Aug 22, 2012 5:28 AM, "Anthony Tavener" <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it
>> anyway: Label.
>>
>> Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :)
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:
>>
>>> Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:
>>>
>>>  I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
>>>> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?
>>>>
>>>> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that
>>>> prefix,
>>>> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to
>>>> see
>>>> it. Any hints? :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is
>>> just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled
>>> arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing
>>> these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was
>>> later merged with trunk.
>>>
>>> Gerd
>>>
>>> PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
>>> --
>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>>> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
>>> Creator of GODI and camlcity.org.
>>> Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/**contact.html<http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html>
>>> Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>>
>>
>>

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Re: [Caml-list] What is the meaning behind the "labl" prefix?

[Adrien]

On 22/08/2012, Anthony Tavener <anthony.tavener@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a very sensible naming. Then evolution takes hold. ;) Thanks for the
> history!

As far as I'm concerned, I've chosen "lablwebkit" simply because there
was already "lablgtk". I could have gone for "lablgtk(2)-webkit" too
but it's longer. :P

Oh, and except lablsoup at some point in the future. :D
(although, this one is so ugly that I might think about it again)

-- 
Adrien Nader