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He was a gem, so it is good to see he found some Clojure.

I remember a time when Reddit puns weren't rewarded on here

unlikely, unless one of the committers acts on his behalf. There are only five people with more than ten commits it's not hard to check they are real. Like, https://github.com/nbeloglazov this guy is the top committer, if you click on his LinkedIn (which he supplies) then you can see he went to a university and Belarus and trivial searching finds https://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080314TopCoder.html so he is extremely likely to be the real deal (and a damn good programmer, very likely, too).

So perhaps _why references are just a celebration of his legacy.

Oh, that does indeed look very _Why-ish. Glad to see he's still creating stuff.

it's not him, look at the committers

Not him. It was whyified by Sam Aaron, the author of Sonic Pi, here: https://github.com/quil/quil/commit/32871e15056f684147063309... He called it "poetified"