From: derek@knosof.co.uk   
      
   Chris,   
      
   > Derek Jones recollection of its usage at Intermetrics with a possible   
   > connection to the PQCC work done at CMU sounds quite plausible. Many   
      
   The CHILL compiler team was huge, by compiler standards.   
   We actually had front-end, middle-end, and back-end teams.   
   I have not since worked on a compiler project with this exact   
   explicit breakdown (which was probably driven by the division   
   of multi-company labor).   
      
   I know there were earlier compilers at Intermetrics that had a   
   middle-end concept.  Tony Flanders knows a lot of history and might   
   be able to say where the term originated:   
   http://www.whysheep.com/i2/daf-history2.html   
      
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