On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 01:55 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
