On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:55:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused > >except in some of the dustier corners of Unix user communities before > >being actively developed again as more and more people started wanting a > >copyfree C compiler alternative to the very copyleft GCC. PCC was a big > >deal for a while, and I think most C compilers were based on it to some > >extent in the early '80s, but its influenced waned enough that GCC > >replaced it pretty much everywhere by about the same time DRA went away. > > According to wiki it was "the" compiler for unix- particularly bsd > up to 4.4 (FreeBSD's parent prior to becoming opensource).
Yeah, that's pretty much the case. > > > >As things stand now, I don't think anyone is actively developing TenDRA > >(and in fact I wonder if all the more recent work on it has been lost), > > According to wiki there was one person on the job and has grown to a > "team" now- how many I don't know :) As far as I'm aware, there was a "team" for a while, and a fork in the effort, and now both forks have basically died (see my above explanation). After a glance at the Wikipedia article about TenDRA, I think it was only referring to the pre-death period and not "now" for when there is/was a "team". > > Well. Consider me enlightened... ;) I'm glad I could help. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
