[LLVMdev] "Name that compiler"

[Patrick Meredith]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Fredrik Svensson wrote:

> Hi
>
> The Dragon book, led my thoughts to "Here be dragons"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
>
> "In another context, software programmers sometimes use it to indicate
> especially difficult or obscure sections of code in a program so  
> that others
> do not tamper with them."
>
> Why not some dragon name ? or maybe someone can use this idea to  
> come up with
> something else.

Wyrm? :-)

Also if we are going to throw in fictional Tolkien metals, how about  
Adamant?

>
> /f
>
>
> Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> Mithril
>>
>> The fictional metal from JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings.
>>
>> Gandalf says:
>>
>> "Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and
>> polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal,  
>> light and
>> yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common
>> silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim."
>>
>> Paolo Invernizzi
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