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Yes, I know about the earlier ABC. :-) When I originally named mine, it was really just a small language for my own course, so I wasn't particularly worried abo
by michael-lehn 15d ago
Yes, I know about the earlier ABC. :-)
When I originally named mine, it was really just a small language for my own course, so I wasn't particularly worried about name collisions. And the wordplay was simply too tempting: students would use ABC ("A Better C") to write their own compiler, which I jokingly called ABC ("A Bloody Compiler").
The student compiler has since grown into a separate project and is now called "not-abc".
Until recently I still thought the language itself was small and obscure enough that there wasn't much risk of confusion. But now that I'm starting to develop it beyond its original teaching purpose, I think the naming issue is a fair point. You're also not the first person to bring it up since I published v0.1.
So yes, I may have to come up with a new name. :-) I'm not convinced by LehnABC yet, but suggestions are certainly welcome.
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- ModernMech 15d agoYes, I think when the language leaves the lab is the perfect time to start thinking about branding and I do like MCL that one is apparently also a language from 30 years ago but nothing like abc. It would be pronounced “muscle”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010465589900064 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001046...