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by exDM69 5306 days ago
Sorry, missed the acronym part. Anyway, spelling out the acronym only creates more confusion.

I don't understand the downvotes, if you downvoted, please tell why. I tried to be sensible in explaining what LLVM is and why it's hard to explain. And why it's no longer an acronym.
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lukesandberg 5306 days ago
pedantic: LLVM is not an acronym, it is an initialism. An acronym is when the abbreviated letters spell something pronounceable as a word (GNU, NATO, SCUBA, PATRIOT act...) an initialism is just an abbreviation using the first letter of every word in the abbreviated name or phrase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism

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