[LLVMdev] Compiler name: Nāga

Bill Wendling isanbard at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 14:01:08 PDT 2007


On 4/12/07, Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Michael McCracken wrote:
>
> > Hi, the idea of a dragon theme reminded me of the dragon-like serpents
> > called "Nāga" from Cambodian mythology, among other places.
>
> naga.org already exists, though.  We probably want to have the .org
> available.
> I like the dragon theme but most of the familiar dragon names are taken.
>
> The Hydra of Greek mythology was a dragon-like creature with multiple
> heads,
> and hydra.org seems not to exist.
>
It's also a moon around Pluto (along with Nix and Charon (which starts
with "CH" like Chris's name)). All of them, though, have to do with
Hades. Not sure if it's a good association ;-)

-bw




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