EPICS vs. EPICS Base

["J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hello!

It seems to me that the terms "EPICS" and "EPICS Base" are often used
interchangeably, yet they're not the same thing.  Are the following
definitions correct?

  EPICS: A specification of control system definitions and protocols.

  EPICS Base: A C/C++ implementation of the EPICS specification.

If correct, then I'm OK with keeping the name EPICS Base, but I wonder
if a better name might be EPICS-C++?  Then, if desired, you could
have other implementations of the EPICS specification: EPICS-Java,
EPICS-Perl, EPICS-Python, EPICS-Ruby, etc.

Thoughts?

Lewis