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by nsgf 3407 days ago
Fun fact: hasura in Greek stands for "loss/ lost".
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Hahaha! The H in Hasura comes from Haskell, while Asura is the Sanskrit word for demon ('daemon').
It also rhymes with "Basura" which means "Trash" in Spanish. ;-)
Then I guess it was fortunate that it it was written in Haskell and not in Basic