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Where did “XL” abbreviation in IBM XL Compilers name come from?

  • 1.  Where did “XL” abbreviation in IBM XL Compilers name come from?

    Posted Thu December 31, 2015 06:14 AM

    There is a whole family of IBM compilers.

    But there is no information on what does "XL" mean.

    So, my question is where did "XL" abbreviation in IBM XL Compilers name come from?

    The related discussion at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34544948/where-did-xl-abbreviation-in-ibm-xl-compilers-name-come-from

    Alexander V. Pozdneev


  • 2.  Re: Where did “XL” abbreviation in IBM XL Compilers name come from?

    Posted Mon January 04, 2016 03:33 PM

    Hi Alexander - unfortunately the official explanation of the name seems to have disappeared from our official documentation, however the original "XL" name stands for eXceptionaL.

    xlsup_lac


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