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The name is a pun on "broke"? (I first thought it was Swedish for "brøk" (fraction/ratio), but it turns out Swedes don't say "brök" but "bråk", which just means "noise" in Norwegian&Danish. But that's way too convoluted a pun, even for Haskell).
_Microft
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I think it might be just a heavy metal umlaut [0], meant to look cool.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
toxik
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Bråk means fight in Swedish in the noun sense!
tapland
on April 19, 2020
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Or "division" in a mathematical sense
toxik
on April 20, 2020
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Why would anyone downvote my comment? It’s clearly relevant, entirely accurate, and charmingly polite.
tapland
on April 24, 2020
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I have no idea and I didn't so =\
shcollider
on April 21, 2020
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Yes, bad pun on "broke"
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