There is another TEAL (uppercase) programming language: <https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-details/dapps/avm/te...>
I designed and named the Transaction Execution Approval Language for the Algorand blockchain in 2020. I'm partial to the original, but as it grew it got rebranded to be the "Algorand Virtual Machine". Glad someone still remembers it as TEAL!
I vote we give the name to the lua one!
Seconded.
I think you and GP both mean that this TEAL is adjacent to crptocurrency, and therefore, who cares about stepping on toes?
This heuristic works well in most cases maybe, but will lead to false positives sometimes. May I gently suggest that this might be one of those cases. Algorand is the project of this fellow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Micali
Credentials aren't faultless but they do provide a certain web of trust. If you browse the academic and professional history of this fellow, I think you'll agree.
Algorand is, I think, as serious and sincere a research project as any other.
I meant that I have a sort of affection for Lua, so it gets preferential treatment in my book, and therefore Teal ought to get the name above another relatively random project with the same name.
nothing against Algorand, there's just a kind of nice fuzzy feeling that lua gives me. Plus the name is a good pun
Do you know how old that is? Lua Teal has already been around for at least 5 years.