ycombinator"In my Christmas wishlist is a language ..."

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 23:03:47 UTC, Mark wrote:
> On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 18:38:32 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
> wrote:
>> Mir can be translated as "Peace". Cooperation with other 
>> languages through betterC API is more productive than 
>> universality/feature wars :-)
>
> And here I thought it was named after the space station. =)

Yes (and logo too [1]) , but the translation has two meanings 1. 
"peace" and 2. "world"/"universe".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mir_insignia.svg