LSO/LSL: a pedant asks (a Friday scripting thread)

As I understand it, LSL is the TLA for Linden Scripting Language, and LSO is the file-type extension for the result of a compilation of a script using the LSL compiler. My question is about the correct usage of terms when referring to scripts, the result of a compilation, the compiler itself and to the run-time interpreter, as well as the use of the plain language associated with these.

How should I refer to a script that has been compiled for/by/under LSL/LSO/Mono, and to a script that is running under/on LSL/LSO/Mono?

What does the "O" in LSO stand for?

And should "Mono" always be capitalised?

And I do know that it's improper to start a sentence with a conjunction. But sometimes I deliberately choose to do so.

Don't forget, sometimes the LSL byte code is referred to as "LSL2" just to add to the confusion.

Tsk tsk, EF. That's like ending a sentence with a proposition - improper grammar up with which I will not put!

I always just assumed it meant opcodes... even though Linden Script Opcodes does sound funny

Object, I suspect. That's the traditional intermediate file name for compilers on UNIX, going back to the beginning. You had "foo.c" compiled to "foo.o", "foo.p" for the Berkeley Pascal compiler compiled to "foo.po", and so on. Comes from DEC operating system's ".obj" files combined with the fact that Ritchie was typing on an ASR33 teletype so wanted to make names as short as possible. If you've ever used a teletype you'll understand why.

And that's one of the many sayings Winston will be rightly remembered by.

Which could explain why everyone keeps quiet about it.

Eek! The term "byte code", which I'd forgetten, will, however, almost certainly, prove useful, in the future.

Sorry. Pub lunches, you know.

I've never learned how that came to be used as a generalisation in programming examples, and I would dearly love to.
I guess I'd be showing my age if I mentioned punched tape and editing code using sticky splices, though I can offer the excuse that my school was never furnished with the most up-to-date equipment.

More than you ever wanted to know about foo: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html#

"foo" is what pre-algebra called "n"