Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kstrauser 1433 days ago
GNU C Compiler was the original name. A lot of us probably never bothered updating our mental acronym tables.
1 comments
bzxcvbn 1433 days ago
You mean to tell me that the acronym settled in your head between March and December 1987 and you never reconsidered since then?
link
kstrauser 1431 days ago
Nope. It settled in my head before it was renamed in 1999: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History#Reunification
link