[sixtofour]

"if the name is an acronym, you should spell out the acronym"

(I did not downvote you BTW)

Someone else replied that the project is now just referred to as LLVM. That's fine, but people expect acronyms to stand for something, and the definition or lack of should be way at the top of any project. Lots of people come to a project for the first time and aren't in the know.

[exDM69]

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.

[lukesandberg]

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