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Re: History of GCC

From: Will Hawkins <whh8b at virginia dot edu>
To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:32:27 -0400
Subject: Re: History of GCC
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Richard Kenner
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> The Ada frontend was developed at AdaCore.
>
> The Ada frontend was developed at NYU, as an Air Force-funded project
> to show that Ada95 (then called Ada9X) was implementable.  AdaCore was
> later formed once that was complete to provide commercial support for
> the Ada compiler.  The members of that NYU project were the initial
> team at AdaCore.

Such great information, Richard! Thanks so much!
Will

References:
- History of GCC
  - From: Will Hawkins
- Re: History of GCC
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: History of GCC
  - From: Will Hawkins
- Re: History of GCC
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: History of GCC
  - From: Richard Kenner

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