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gautamcgoel on June 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rust I wanted had no future

Lol there's no apostrophe in OCaml - it's not an Irish name like, say, O'Brian.

noelwelsh on June 6, 2023 [–]

You're rude and you're ignorant of OCaml's history. There is no apostrophe in OCaml now, but there used to be. E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20050207032955/http://www.ocaml....

OCaml is / was short for Objective Caml. Hence the name used to have an apostrophe. At some point that was dropped.

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