Leler's name

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From: Richard Lee
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 17:59

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Roger Hayes says in <4071@megaron.arizona.edu>:

    (Wm Leler, his book "Constraint Programming Languages", his language
    'Bertrand', & his first name)

    No, Wm is not short for William.  It's his name, pronounced "whim".
    Says so right on his driver's license and everything.


Someone should tell the Library of Congress, then.  I claimed it *was*
short for William because of the following text in the front of the
book:

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Leler, Wm (William)
    Constraint Programming Languages
      Their Specification and Generation
    ...

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