Re: An app is born and more about the future of SWI's development tools

"Norbert E. Fuchs" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
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On 18 Aug 2013, at 17:37 , Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Nitpicking: Why the name swipl-win that reminds me of Windows?
> 
> 
> I always assumed this was a contraction of 'swipl window' - i.e. the console window.
> 
> On my windows 7 system with 6.1.9 typing 'swipl' in a DOS box brings up a unix style command line interactor.
> Typing swipl-win brings up the normal window.
> 
> So, no relation to Windows OS.

Anne

Here is the background of my nitpicking/question. While the application is aptly called SWI-Prolog(.app) there is a first menu item called swipl-win




This is different from all Mac applications where the first menu always carries the name of the application. 

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