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Please don't name it just "Meta", it will make it a lot more difficult to find resources for it in the web. Imagine googling for "meta", "meta lang", "meta lang

Please don't name it just "Meta", it will make it a lot more difficult to find resources for it in the web. Imagine googling for "meta", "meta lang", "meta language", "metalang". Maybe something to go with "meta", like MetaCaml.

e12e 12y ago
Agreed, just meta probably isn't a very good name (neither is standard meta-language for that matter, but at least the abbreviation sml isn't entirely hopeless). Just "meta" would be rather close to OMeta[1] as well. I tried to see if there might be a more generic animal name to use for inspiration, and so learned that: "The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne approximately equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), such as horses.". Which while somewhat interesting doesn't really reveal an immediately usable name. But at least Artiodac should be unique... [1] http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/ http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/
- xhevahir 12y ago
  The hyrax. A very cute animal that can scale sheer rock faces.
  - e12e 12y ago
    Does seem to be rather distantly related to camels, though?
    - xhevahir 12y ago
      I didn't realize something camel-like was wanted.
      - e12e 12y ago
        I thought it was rather obvious in context that camels are even toed ungulates, and so the group to which camels belong (but a more generic term); and the language was a a kind of meta-(o)-caml, so looking for something that was related to camels, but more generic might be fruitful in order to find a name that was both unique, and also had a flavour of being "meta-caml" (or meta camel). Using myself as a the universal yardstick, I can say with certainty that not all people familiar with (o)caml and camels are aware camels are ungulates, let alone even toed ungulates... hence that particular avenue was a bit of a dead end... Anyway, the Hyrax looks almost as interesting as the honey badger -- certainly a worthy code name -- but perhaps not for meta(o)caml IMNHO. [edit: re-reading the language authors comment that: "It will be for OCaml what Elixir is for Erlang." -- I suppose something that is to a Camels as Elixir is ... to an abstract concept? Options might include: Water, Bedouin, Desert? I also note that: "The earliest known camel, called Protylopus, lived in North America 40 to 50 million years ago (during the Eocene). It was about the size of a rabbit and lived in the open woodlands of what is now South Dakota." I don't think protylopus is a very good name either, but probably better than ungulate. Perhaps "Dakota Caml" or Dakota Meta Language (dml) might work :-) ]

e12e 12y ago

Agreed, just meta probably isn't a very good name (neither is standard meta-language for that matter, but at least the abbreviation sml isn't entirely hopeless). Just "meta" would be rather close to OMeta[1] as well. I tried to see if there might be a more generic animal name to use for inspiration, and so learned that: "The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne approximately equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), such as horses.". Which while somewhat interesting doesn't really reveal an immediately usable name. But at least Artiodac should be unique... [1] http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/ http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/

xhevahir 12y ago
The hyrax. A very cute animal that can scale sheer rock faces.
- e12e 12y ago
  Does seem to be rather distantly related to camels, though?
  - xhevahir 12y ago
    I didn't realize something camel-like was wanted.
    - e12e 12y ago
      I thought it was rather obvious in context that camels are even toed ungulates, and so the group to which camels belong (but a more generic term); and the language was a a kind of meta-(o)-caml, so looking for something that was related to camels, but more generic might be fruitful in order to find a name that was both unique, and also had a flavour of being "meta-caml" (or meta camel). Using myself as a the universal yardstick, I can say with certainty that not all people familiar with (o)caml and camels are aware camels are ungulates, let alone even toed ungulates... hence that particular avenue was a bit of a dead end... Anyway, the Hyrax looks almost as interesting as the honey badger -- certainly a worthy code name -- but perhaps not for meta(o)caml IMNHO. [edit: re-reading the language authors comment that: "It will be for OCaml what Elixir is for Erlang." -- I suppose something that is to a Camels as Elixir is ... to an abstract concept? Options might include: Water, Bedouin, Desert? I also note that: "The earliest known camel, called Protylopus, lived in North America 40 to 50 million years ago (during the Eocene). It was about the size of a rabbit and lived in the open woodlands of what is now South Dakota." I don't think protylopus is a very good name either, but probably better than ungulate. Perhaps "Dakota Caml" or Dakota Meta Language (dml) might work :-) ]