4.0 What's in a name

[Rich Stevens]

In article <25731 at adm.brl.mil> drl at vuse.vanderbilt.edu writes:
>I don't believe that "rcc" is actually a
>Microsoft invention but rather is the name of the 3rd generation
>compiler based on the original portable C compiler, pcc.  I even seem
>to recall that there was some discussion of an "scc", which I assume
>would be the 4th generation of the same compiler family.
>
>Is "rcc" an AT&T derivative of "pcc"?

The paper "Four Generations of the Portable C Compiler" by David Kristol
(Proceedings of the 1986 Summer Usenix Conference, Atlanta), pp. 335-343
gives all the details.  The genealogy was pcc -> pcc2 -> qcc -> rcc.

	Rich Stevens