[LLVMdev] The name of LLVM

[Jianzhou Zhao]

The LLVM term in Wikipedia still uses the old explanation.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:05 PM, 陳韋任 wrote:
>
>>> "LLVM" is officially no longer an acronym.  The acronym it once expanded too was confusing, and inappropriate almost from day 1.  :)  As LLVM has grown to encompass other subprojects, it became even less useful and meaningless.
>>>
>>> In short, it is just "The LLVM Project", and LLVM doesn't stand for anything anymore.  It is a nice short domain name though :)
>>
>>  Just to make sure. Do you mean "Low Level Virtual Machine" is gone and LLVM is
>> not an acronym for "Low Level Virtual Machine" anymore?
>
> Correct.
>
> -Chris
>



-- 
Jianzhou