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- ↑ Benjamin M. Brosgol, "TCOLAda and the “Middle End” of the PQCC Ada compiler", Proceedings of the ACM-SIGPLAN symposium on The ADA programming language (1980). ISBN 0-89791-030-3. Documents part of an industrial compiler using PQCC technology.
- ↑ B.W. Leverett, R.G. Cattell, S.O. Hobbs, J.M. Newcomer, A.H. Reiner, B.R. Schatz, W.A. Wulf, "An Overview of the Production-Quality Compiler-Compiler Project", IEEE Computer13:8:38-49 (August 1980).
- ↑ William Wulf, The Design of an Optimizing Compiler , Elsevier Science Ltd, 1980. ISBN 0-444-00158-1. Describes Wulf's BLISS-11 compiler, which included some PQCC ideas.