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unusual facts about compilers



Abu 'Ubaida

He was one of the most learned and authoritative scholars of his time in all matters pertaining to the Arabic language, antiquities and stories, and is constantly cited by later authors and compilers.

Atlas Computer Laboratory

The Atlas Computer Laboratory made important contributions to systems software including operating systems, compilers, computer graphics, and networking.

Augmented assignment

This last was the basis of the similar feature in the ALGOL compilers offered via the Burroughs B6700 systems, using the tilda symbol to stand for the variable being assigned to, so that

Autocatalytic set

Examples of practical importance of non-autonomous autocatalytic sets can be found e.g. in the field of compiler construction and in operating systems, where the self-referential nature of the respective constructions is explicitly discussed, very often in terms of the chicken and egg problem.

Automatic parallelization tool

output as an SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data) parallel C version of the program that can be compiled by native C compilers on a

C--

Since writing a custom code generator is a challenge in itself, and the compiler back ends available to researchers at that time were complex and poorly documented, several projects had written compilers which generated C code (for instance, the original Modula-3 compiler).

Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.

Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks supports multiple compilers, including MinGW / GCC, Digital Mars, Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++, LLVM Clang, Watcom, LCC and the Intel C++ compiler.

Collective Tuning Initiative

Interactive Compilation Interface: Opens and transforms production compilers into stable interactive research tool sets using an event-driven plugin system to avoid the development of new research compilers from scratch

Compiler-compiler

The first compiler-compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler.

Dáire Drechlethan

His kindred, the Dáirine or Corcu Loígde, believed to be related to the Érainn, provided a number of powerful kings of Tara in the early period, and this could not be ignored by the Uí Néill compilers of the list.

Digital Mars

Digital Mars is a small American software company owned by Walter Bright that makes C and C++ compilers, and associated utilities such as an integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and DOS, which Digital Mars terms an integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE).

Galahad library

Support is provided for many operating systems, including Digital UNIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX and Solaris, and for a variety of popular Fortran 90 compilers on these platforms and operating systems.

Inventory turnover

Some compilers of industry data (e.g., Dun & Bradstreet) use sales as the numerator instead of cost of sales.

Jesse B. Aikin

After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations.

Jørn Jensen

In tight collaboration with Peter Naur and others, he developed reliable, well documented compilers to the ALGOL 60 programming language.

MicroBlaze

Alternative compilers and development tools have been made available from Altium but an EDK installation and license is still required.

Microsoft Roslyn

Microsoft "Roslyn" is a set of APIs for exposing the Microsoft C# and Visual Basic .NET compilers as services available at runtime.

Process.h

Most C compilers that target DOS, Windows 3.1x, Win32, OS/2, Novell NetWare or DOS extenders supply this header and the library functions in their C library.

Quadruple-precision floating-point format

In the C/C++ with a few systems and compilers, quadruple precision may be specified by the long double type, but this is not required by the language (which only requires long double to be at least as precise as double), nor is it common.

Roach motel

A property of the Java Memory Model, which lets compilers and Java Virtual Machines move accesses to memory into synchronized blocks, but not to move them out.

Runtime error 200

Runtime error 200 is the standard error message by Borland's Pascal compilers, standing for Division by zero.

S/SL programming language

S/SL has been used to implement production commercial compilers for languages such as PL/I, Euclid, Turing, Ada, and COBOL, as well as interpreters, command processors, and domain specific languages of many kinds.

Silvio Antoniano

He was one of the compilers of the Roman Catechism and a member of the commission charged by Clement VIII with the revision of the Breviary.

Steven Muchnick

He then went on to apply his knowledge of compilers as a vital member of the teams that developed two computer architectures — PA-RISC at Hewlett-Packard and SPARC at Sun Microsystems.

Suzanne Curchod

Among the regular visitors were Marmontel, La Harpe, Buffon, Grimm, Mably, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the compilers of the Encyclopédie including Diderot and d'Alembert.

The Comics We Loved, Selection of 20th Century Comics and Creators from the Region of Former Yugoslavia

"In this book, these intrepid, discriminating compilers have realised an exceptional achievement by combing diligently through thousands of pages of comics and comics reviews to distil a captivating alphabet of artists and writers who have shaped and enhanced not only the comics of their homeland but in several cases the comics of the world." — Paul Gravett, writer, curator, international comics historian, director of Comica Festival, London

The Portland Group

or PGI is a company that produces a set of commercially available Fortran, C and C++ compilers for high-performance computing systems.

The first products, pipelining Fortran and C compilers, were released in 1991, targeting the Intel i860 processor.

Wes Graham

WATFOR was followed by similar teaching compilers, like WATBOL, for teaching COBOL, and WATIAC for teaching the principles of assembly language programming.

Zortech

Zortech Ltd was a small British software company that marketed C and C++ compilers and associated software.


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