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Stalin∇, a brutally optimizing compiler for the VLAD language
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Why Stalin?! #2

Open Isinlor opened 6 years ago

Isinlor commented 6 years ago

Why is this library named after a criminal on whose orders tens of millions of people were murdered, starved and raped?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes

barak commented 6 years ago

He was a brutal dictator and an awful man who murdered millions and smiled about it. Now we laugh at him and his memory. We make fun of him. (The name is a joke: this compiler performs brutal optimization.) We have the last laugh.

I can assure you that if Stalin were alive today, he would not appreciate this act of spitting upon his memory.