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There's a restaurant down the street from me named after Genghis Khan. There's a craft brew named after Tamurlane. I could go on and on.
There's a huge difference: there are a lot of people alive today with relatives whose lives were cut short by twentieth-century mass murderers.
What does "LaHaShem HaAretz U'Mloah" and "Tam V'Nishlam Shevah L'El Borei Olam" at the begging and end of source files?
No idea why they are there.
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In the "name" of millions and millions and millions of dead and those brainwashed through terror, I gotta say no, don't relax. It's not funny in the least.
Stalin is also just a Russian surname; probably craploads of them in the Moscow phone book. Randomly googling for "Igor Stalin", I found a Facebook page and YouTube channel. Are there famous Stalins besides the well-known tyrant? Wikipedia informs me that "The Stalin" were a Japanese punk band, and some rapper called Jovan Smith took on J. Stalin as a stage name, and an Indian politician called M. K. Stalin. All of t…
Holy crap HN has its tight underpants on this evening. Relax folks!
Naming something, even in jest, after one of the most vicious mass murderers in human history is just shameful. Most historians agree that Stalin is responsible for 20 to 60 million non-wartime deaths. Making jokes about any mass murderer trivializes their victims.
Uh, no. Comedy is the one realm within human discourse where we're allowed to discuss things and the normal rules don't apply. This has been the case since time immemorial and it's not about to change now.
The topic here is seminal work on whole-program compilation. Comments about this work, or about whole-program compilation or Scheme compilation in general, are welcome. Indignation over the name is off-topic. So is indignation about indignation over the name, and so on.
What does "LaHaShem HaAretz U'Mloah" and "Tam V'Nishlam Shevah L'El Borei Olam" at the begging and end of source files?
That's transliterated Hebrew. The first one means "The world and everything in it belongs to God", the second "The end, praise God, creator of the world." No idea why they are there.
The topic here is seminal work on whole-program compilation. Comments about this work, or about whole-program compilation or Scheme compilation in general, are welcome. Indignation over the name is off-topic. So is indignation about indignation over the name, and so on.
Is there anyway you, or some other moderator, could repost this in an environment that allows a proper discussion? Something like enabling the "pending comments" system.
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Since when has losing an arm justified losing a leg?
Well, that is not the point though. He is just pointing out the hypocrisy.