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I'm curious. Why the name "pyre" and how did it get that name? I get the "py" at the beginning to refer to python. What dead things are being symbolically (or o
by newscracker 8y ago
I'm curious. Why the name "pyre" and how did it get that name? I get the "py" at the beginning to refer to python. What dead things are being symbolically (or otherwise) being burned here?
Edit: I did skim through the comments here and also skimmed through the official site and the GitHub repo. I didn't find anything about this name.
- jwilk 8y ago"re" of course stands for regular expression... Oh wait, no. The person who came up with this name didn't think it through.
- newscracker 8y agoRegular expressions is what I thought when I just saw the name, but it didn't make sense in this context.