It's a "Low Level Virtual Machine" which is not low-level nor a virtual machine.
/dpt/ - Daily Programming Thread
David Parker
Christopher Garcia
>inb4 it's a Roman numeral
Anthony Gutierrez
Why is it that most Python programs are written like shit?
Luis Price
shit lang, shit code.
Carter Turner
It really does stand for Low Level Virtual Machine, but they are correct in stating that it is not an acronym. It's an initialism.
John Lopez
>mfw project lead watches me type stuff in the command line or starts backseat programming
Jaxson Wilson
more like project lewd
Grayson Cook
LLVM is an abstract machine, and "abstract machine" used to be synonymous with "virtual machine" (certainly among compiler hackers), until subhumans invented their own meaning for the term "virtual machine", then bullying LLVM to no end how their abstract machine is not a virtual machine until LLVM team declared that LLVM does not stand for anything in particular.
Easton Thompson
I know that. I was just trying to give the most unhelpful description possible while still being technically correct.
Jaxson Reyes
>What are you working on, Jow Forums?
If the other ncurses user is on, I am taking up the challenge of drawing a chess board in c with ncurses now as well.