[exprla-devel] Re: [xpl] FAQs for comment

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Michael Lauzon" <ce940@f...> wrote:
Okay, you are right, there is a Pascal language out there called XPL 
based on StatsPascal.  But, this language is still going to be called 
XPL (because I didn't know about the Pascal name when I came up with 
this idea.); what are they going to do...sue us?!  Doubt it.  But the 
thing is, they don't really seem to use the term XPL anywhere except 
in the titles of their documents (and only sometimes at that).


--- In xpl@e..., "Michael Lauzon" <ce940@f...> wrote:
> I don't think there is, but it being obscure shouldn't matter.  
> I'll do a search on one of the search engines and see if you're 
> right about the name, but XPL is what this language is going to 
> be called, so if we upset the Pascal camp, well...we'll come to 
> that if it happens.  :)  Well, maybe if one of us could contact the 
> owner of XPL.ORG (do a whois from one of the registars' websites; I 
> would but I haven't been able to access my email for over a week) 
and 
> see if he/she would give it to us.  
> 
> 
> --- In xpl@e..., "Garreth Galligan" <garreth.galligan@o...> 
> wrote:
> > Michael Lauzon wrote:
> > 
> > >we do have a problem: xpl.com, xpl.org (I do tend to lean more 
> towards
> > >this one!), xpl.net, expel.com, expel.org, expel.net; they all 
> happen
> > >to be taken,
> > 
> > We could follow oasis' lead and use:
> > 
> > xpl-open.org
> > or
> > open-xpl.org
> > 
> > as it is an open source project.
> > 
> > However I believe there is a very obscure language already in 
> existence with
> > the acronym XPL -
> > Some flavour of Pascal I think, I could find virtually nothing on 
> it. We
> > could be facing a naming conflict...
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