Comment by melenaboija
3 years ago
It is named after a French guy called Pierre Catala, not the language. Probably the name comes from the language but according to the documentation does not seem to be with acute accent.
> The language is named after Pierre Catala, a professor of law who pionneered the French legaltech by creating a computer database of law cases, Juris-Data. The research group that he led in the late 1960s, the Centre d’études et de traitement de l’information juridique (CETIJ), has also influenced the creation by state conselor Lucien Mehl of the Centre de recherches et développement en informatique juridique (CENIJ), which eventually transformed into the entity managing the LegiFrance website, acting as the public service of legislative documentation.
The commenter was maybe pointing out a naming conflict.
> the documentation does not seem to be with acute accent.
'à' has a grave accent, not an acute accent.
Yups right, sorry :(
I just figured that since you cared to name the specific accent character (most people probably wouldn't!), you'd care about the mixup too. :)
Their research group is called 'Prosecco', and another of their projects at Inria is 'Squirrel'... Another one is F* (pronounced F star).
I imagine that they find their naming choices amusing.