Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 19:52:56 EDT 2017

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On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 01:55 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> Since GCC is the GNU Compiler *Collection*
>
> Today I Learned that gcc doesn't mean "Gnu C Compiler".
>
> I knew gcc compiles C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++, but today I
> discovered it also compiles Ada, Fortran, Java and "treelang", whatever the
> hell that is.
>

Yeah. I think it *was* originally "GNU C Compiler", but when all the
others got added, they renamed it. I may be wrong on that though.

ChrisA

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