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		BoorishBears on Sept 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLVM merges machine function splitter for reductio... You mean > a winged two-legged dragon with a barbed tail ? https://llvm.org/Logo.html > The LLVM logo is a stylized wyvern (a kind of dragon). Dragons have connotations of power, speed and intelligence, and can also be sleek, elegant, and modular (err, maybe not). In addition, there is a series of influential compiler books going back to 1977 which featured dragons on the cover. Leave it to HN to jump to nitpick something as meaningless a wyvern vs a dragon but not even take 5 seconds to check the primary source

rmdashrfstar on Sept 11, 2020 | [–]

99% of readers either read and voted or moved on, it’s just one guy who decided to nitpick you, not some nebulous “HN” hive mind collective.

BoorishBears on Sept 11, 2020 | | [–]

useless nitpicks is a time honored HN tradition.

anoncareer0212 on Sept 11, 2020 | [2 more]

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BoorishBears on Sept 11, 2020 [flagged] | [–]

Well the nitpicking is pretty well accepted at this point, but since when are spammy comments like this a thing?

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