Re: Meaning of BOA

[Rajan, Hridesh [COM S]]

Dear Vinicius,

Boa is not actually an acronym, it is a name meant to be written like Boa.

In May 2012, when the work on Boa project began, the project was initially called `ULCA' that stood for Ultra Large Scale Code Analysis. Now, we immediately realized that ULCA wasn't a very catchy name.

So, after some thinking I suggested to my wonderful collaborators Drs. Robert Dyer, Hoan Nguyen, and Tien Nguyen that we go with Boa, after the constrictor snake Boa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_constrictor). My collaborators were very kind to go along with it, and so the name stuck. Later on we named the framework that allows Boa code to run locally Candoia (see: http://design.cs.iastate.edu/papers/MSR-17/, and http://candoia.github.io), a subspecies of Boa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candoia_bibroni). 

In summary, Boa is not an acronym, it is a name given to both the language and its infrastructure. Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Dr. Hridesh Rajan

Kingland Professor, Dept. of Computer Science,

Professor-In-Charge, ISU Data Science Program

Iowa State University

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~hridesh/

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Subject: Meaning of BOA

 

Good afternoon. My name is Vinicius and I am a master degree student
from Federal University of Uberlandia in Brazil. I am going to use BOA
in my research and I need to know if there is a meaning of acronym BOA.
I have already read some papers to find out this information but I didnt
have any result. Can you help me with this?

Thanks in advance.
Vinicius Silva

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