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This is unintentional given the history of the name of the project explained in another comment on this page, but "mal" in French means "evil", tying into the famous aphorism.

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I wouldn't say it was entirely unintentional :-). I was definitely aware that "mal" could mean "evil" when I named it. It was a bit more apropos when mal only had a single implementation in GNU Make macro language.

Hehe :-)

In Spanish it means "badly", which is an encouraging goal to give the project a try :)

In Spanish it also means evil.

Example: No seas vencido por el mal, sino vence con el bien el mal.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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