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This article is full of gross mistakes. For example it claims that Caml is "Cambridge ML" which is ridiculously false. Fact check every sentence. Really sad.


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


Caml was originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language [1].

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


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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