[LLVMdev] "Name that compiler"

Reid Spencer rspencer at reidspencer.com
Thu Apr 12 06:32:07 PDT 2007


Hi Fredrik,

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:54 +0200, 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.

Do you have a specific name you'd like to suggest?

Reid.

> 
> /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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