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by burakemir13 hours ago |
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upvoteby Svip13 hours ago|
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For those curious: Cambridge ML is a thing, but abbreviated CML[0]; and whilst Caml is part of the ML family, it appears to be unrelated to CML.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/FoundsCS/usingml.html

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upvoteby tromp11 hours ago|
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Caml was originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml

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upvoteby capitalsigma11 hours ago|
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Supposedly it was named "caml" because the author was a smoker who enjoyed camel cigarettes, hence the joke that [later implementations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml#History) were named "Caml Light" and "Caml Special Light"
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