Re: Where did "middle end" come from

Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:19:53 +0000

          From comp.compilers
Related articles
Where did "middle end" come from christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2022-01-02)
Re: Where did "middle end" come from derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk (Derek Jones) (2022-01-02)
RE: Where did "middle end" come from christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2022-01-03)
Re: Where did "middle end" come from derek@knosof.co.uk (Derek Jones) (2022-01-03)
| List of all articles for this month |
From: Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:19:53 +0000
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 22-01-002
Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="97189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com"
Keywords: history
Posted-Date: 02 Jan 2022 10:41:22 EST
In-Reply-To: 22-01-002
Content-Language: en-US

Chris,


> While I am certain we were not the first to use the term, I'm pretty
> certain that we were using "middle end" to describe parts of the TSI
> compilers (the same PL/I compiler DEC bought and a series of other
> ones written by various companies (including in house) that used many
> of the same components that were neither completely language nor
> completely target specific. This would have been around 1985 or so.


The term middle-end was being used at Intermetrics when I was there
in 1981.


The people there were strongly influenced by the PQCC work, but the
project I worked on had just three stages, not the umpteen stages used
by PQCC. Perhaps it came from a project that an Intermetrics person
worked on.

Post a followup to this message

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.