Subject: Re: Naming
From: Moshe Vardi (vardi@cs.rice.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 06:53:03 PST
Yaron, if I understand you correctly, the language that was donated to
Accelera was called "Sugar". You are now proposing to enhance this language
and call the new enhance languaged (consisting of two layers, the "Sugar
Foundation Language" and the "Optional Branching Extension") also "Sugar".
Do I understand you correctly that the two different languages are both
called "Sugar"?
Moshe
> Sugar.
>
> Yaron
>
>> Yaron, my understanding is that "Sugar Foundation Language" refers only
>> to the linear layer. What do you call the complete package, which
>> consists of the "Sugar Foundation Language" and the "Optional Branching
>> Extension"?
>>
>
>> > It is a common practice that a name of a language is coined by the
>> > body/person who designed it.
>> >
>> > For example, the committee referes to Intel's contribution by the names
>> > *ForSpec 1.0* or *ForSpec 2.0*.
>> >
>> > Similarly, please use the names *Sugar* or *Sugar Foundation Language*
>> for
>> > IBM's contribution. There is no need for extra creativity here.
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