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I don't think it's particularly careless: SBCL is short for 'Steel Bank Common Lisp', which is a reference to how the CMU university, named after Carnegie Mellon, could be respectively substituted with 'Steel' (Carnegie) and 'Bank' (Mellon).


I, somehow, never put together the SB -> CM link! That's awesome, thanks for sharing




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